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Book 1 · lines 416–430
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416Cetera diversis tellus animalia formis
417sponte sua peperit, postquam vetus umor ab igne
418percaluit solis, caenumque udaeque paludes
419intumuere aestu, fecundaque semina rerum
420vivaci nutrita solo ceu matris in alvo
421creverunt faciemque aliquam cepere morando.
422Sic ubi deseruit madidos septemfluus agros
423Nilus et antiquo sua flumina reddidit alveo
424aetherioque recens exarsit sidere limus,
425plurima cultores versis animalia glaebis
426inveniunt, et in his quaedam modo coepta per ipsum
427nascendi spatium, quaedam inperfecta suisque
428trunca vident numeris; et eodem in corpore saepe
429altera pars vivit, rudis est pars altera tellus.
430Quippe ubi temperiem sumpsere umorque calorque,