(26) For they prevail in turn as the circle comes round, and pass into one another, and grow great in their appointed turn. R. P. 166 c. They are what they are; but, running through one another, they become men and the tribes of beasts. At one time they are all brought together into one order by Love; at another, <<5>> they are carried each in different directions by the repulsion of Strife, till they grow once more into one and are wholly subdued. Thus in so far as they are wont to grow into one out of many, and again divided become more than one, so far they come into being, and their life is not lasting; but in <<10>> so far as they never cease changing continually, so far are they evermore, immovable in the circle. (27) There are distinguished neither the swift limbs of the sun, no, nor the shaggy earth in its might, nor the sea,—so fast was the god bound in the close covering of Harmony, spherical and round, rejoicing in his circular solitude.[552] R. P. 167. (27_a_) There is no discord and no unseemly strife in his limbs. (28) But he was equal on every side and quite without end, spherical and round, rejoicing in his circular solitude. (29) Two branches do not spring from his back, he has no feet, no swift knees, no fruitful parts; but he was spherical and equal on every side. (30, 31) But, when Strife was grown great in the limbs of the god and sprang forth to claim his prerogatives, in the fulness of the alternate time set for them by the mighty oath, ... for all the limbs of the god in turn quaked. R. P. 167. (32) The joint binds two things. (33) Even as when fig juice rivets and binds white milk.... (34) Cementing[553] meal with water.... (35, 36)