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Sed Epicurus declinatione
atomi vitari necessitatem fati putat. Itaque tertius
quidam motus oritur extra pondus et plagam, cum
declinat atomus intervallo minimo (id appellat ἐλά-
χιστον); quam declinationem sine causa fieri si minus
verbis, re cogitur confiteri. Non enim atomus ab
atomo pulsa declinat. Nam qui potest pelli alia ab
alia, si gravitate feruntur ad perpendiculum corpora
individua rectis lineis, ut Epicuro placet? Sequitur
enim, ut, si alia ab alia numquam depellatur, ne
contingat quidem alia aliam. Ex quo efficitur, etiamsi
sit atomus eaque declinet, declinare sine causa.
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