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Quid igitur est?
inquit; audire enim cupio, quid non
probes.
Principio, inquam, in physicis, quibus maxime gloriatur, primum totus est alienus. Democritea dicit1 perpauca mutans, sed ita, ut ea, quae corrigere vult, mihi
quidem depravare videatur. ille atomos2 quas appellat, [p. 8]
id est corpora individua propter soliditatem, censet in
infinito inani, in quo nihil nec summum nec infimum
nec medium nec ultimum3 nec extremum sit, ita ferri,4
ut concursionibus inter se cohaerescant, ex quo efficiantur ea, quae sint quaeque cernantur, omnia, eumque motum atomorum nullo a principio, sed ex aeterno
tempore intellegi convenire.
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