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Sheepskin.[[561]]
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But if thy assurance of these things was in any way deficient as to how, out of Water and Earth and Air and Fire mingled together, arose the forms and colours of all those mortal things that have been fitted together by Aphrodite, and so are now come into being.... 5
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How tall trees and the fishes in the sea....
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And even as at that time Kypris, preparing warmth,[[562]] after she had moistened the Earth in water, gave it to swift fire to harden it.... R. P. 171.
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Leading the songless tribe of fertile fish.