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ora ballaenae habent in frontibus ideoque summa aqua natantes in sublime nimbos efflant. spirant autem confessione omnium et paucissima alia in mari, quae internorum viscerum pulmonem habent, quoniam sine eo spirare animal nullum putatur. nec piscium branchias habentes anhelitum reddere ac per vices recipere existimant quorum haec opinio est, nec multa alia genera etiam branchiis carentia, in qua sententia fuisse aristotelem video et multis persuasisse doctrina insignibus. nec me protinus huic opinioni eorum accedere haut dissimulo, quoniam et pulmonum vice alia possint spirabilia inesse viscera ita volente natura, sicut et pro sanguine est multis alius umor. in aquas quidem penetrare vitalem hunc halitum quis miretur, qui etiam reddi ab his eum cernat et in terras quoque, tanto spissiorem naturae partem, penetrare argumento animalium quae semper defossa vivunt, ceu talpae accedunt apud me certe efficacia ut credam, etiam omnia in aquis spirare naturae suae sorte, primum saepe adnotata piscium aestivo calore quaedam anhelatio et alia tranquillo velut oscitatio, ipsorum
quoque, qui sunt in adversa opinione, de somno piscium confessio - quis enim sine respiratione somno locus - , praeterea bullantium aquarum sufflatio lunaeque effectu concharum quoque corpora augescentia. super omnia est quod esse auditum et odoratum piscibus non erit dubium, ex ae+ris utrumque materia. odorem quidem non aliud quam infectum ae+ra intellegi possit. quam ob rem de his opinetur ut cuique libitum erit. branchiae non sunt ballaenis nec delphinis. haec duo genera fistula spirant, quae ad pulmonem pertinet, ballaenis a fronte, delphinis a dorso. et vituli marini, quos vocant phocas, spirant ac dormiunt in terra; item testudines, de quibus mox plura.
Naturalis Historia. Pliny the Elder. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.
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