Excerpt from Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis, Libri XXXVII, Vol. 2: Ex Recensione Joannis Harduini Praemittitur Notitia Literaria Accedit Index Studiis Societatis Bipontinae

Uni animantium Iurî'rus e¿ datus, uni luxuria 8c quidem innumerabilibus modis ac per finguîa membra: uni ambitio uni avaritia, uni immenfa Vivendi cupido uni fuperfiitio, uni fepuiturae cu ra, atque etiam pofi {e de fixturo. Nulli Vita fragi lior, nulli rerum omnium libido major, nulli pa vor confufior nulli rabies acrior. Denique cete ra animantia in fuo genere probe degunt congre gari Videmus, 8c fiare contra difiimilia. Leonum te ritas inter {e non dimicat ferpentium morfus non petit ferpentes: ne maris quidem bellua: ac pifces, nifi in diverfa genera faviunt. At hercules homi ni plurima ex homine {imt mala.

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