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1 2 | we will tell them that fire must not be poured upon
2 2 | must not be poured upon fire, whether in the body or
3 2 | like iron melted in the fire, may become softer and so
4 2 | like iron heated in the fire, and grow softer and younger,
5 3 | capable of standing on the fire or not; for the plastic
6 3 | devastate cities, and send fire and desolation among friendly
7 6 | legislator “combing wool into the fire,” as people say, or performing
8 6 | breaks out last, and is the fire of sexual lust, which kindles
9 8 | damage; or if anyone sets fire to his own wood and takes
10 9 | seeds can be softened by fire. Among our citizens there
11 9 | or by the application of fire or cold, or by suffocating
12 10| more clearly. They say that fire and water, and earth and
13 10| talks in this way conceive fire and water and earth and
14 10| primeval element, and not fire or air, then in the truest
15 10| with an external body of fire or air, as some affirm,
16 10| element of water out of fire, instead of forming many
17 12| figure to things woven by fire, they both (i.e., Atropos
18 12| both (i.e., Atropos and the fire) producing the quality of
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