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    in a ten-month period[a]—body and blood,
    from the seed of a man, and the pleasure that accompanies marriage.
And I too, when born, inhaled the common air,
    and fell upon the kindred earth;
    wailing, I uttered that first sound common to all.
In swaddling clothes and with constant care I was nurtured.

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  1. 7:2 In a ten-month period: ten lunar months.