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1 2|            nature, in all cases where things are not, like a house, a
2 2|              by the synthesis of many things.~In other matters a different
3 2|            must be given; for in many things their mode of dissolution
4 3|              quickly.~Hence [too] all things are at all times in a state
5 3| antagonistically, and, owing to this, things that change their situation
6 4|          generally, the longest-lived things occur among the plants,
7 5|        constituting the bodies of all things consists of the following-the
8 5|               Thus we explain why fat things are not liable to decay.