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1002Principio fluere e lapide hoc permulta necessest
1003semina sive aestum, qui discutit aeera aeëra plagis,
1004inter qui lapidem ferrumque est cumque locatus.
1005hoc ubi inanitur spatium multusque vace fit
1006in medio locus, extemplo primordia ferri
1007in vacuum prolapsa cadunt coniuncta, fit utque
1008anulus ipse sequatur eatque ita corpore toto.
1009nec res ulla magis primoribus ex elementis
1010indupedita suis arte conexa cohaeret
1011quam validi ferri natura et frigidus horror.
1012quo minus est mirum, quod dicitur esse alienum,
1013corpora si nequeunt e ferro plura coorta
1014in vacuum ferri, quin anulus ipse sequatur;
1015quod facit et sequitur, donec pervenit ad ipsum
1016iam lapidem caecisque in eo compagibus haesit.