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A prima descendit origine mundi
Causarum series.

Lucan. Pharsalia, VI., 608.

Even from the first beginnings of the world
Descends a chain of causes.

Ā prīmā dēscendit orīgine mundī causārum seriēs.

prīmus, -a, -um, first.

dēscendō, -scendere, -scendī, -scensum, come down, descend.
orīgo -inis, f. origin, source, beginning.
mundus, -ī, m., the universe, the world.
seriēs, acc. -em, abl. -e, f. chain, row, succession.