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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The naming catalogue associates pig with impurity, horse with endurance, and cow with insatiability, then transfers these labels to human conduct. These are moralized analogies in the text, not reliable biological generalizations or grounds for demeaning people. Their importance is how an animal name is treated as a compressed description of a supposed characteristic and reused figuratively.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 60Latin“Porci nomen”