[517] Henry wishes to understand ‘exanimis’ without sense or volition, to avoid the tautology with the next clause; but though ‘exanimis’ occurs not uncommonly in a modified sense when the context explains that actual death is not meant, that is no warrant for our softening the meaning where death is confessedly in question. “Vitam sub nube relinquunt” G. 3. 547.
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