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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The monster paragraph says such beings seldom live long and that almost none survive a specified early period among humans unless carried into secret places. Raro, fere and nisi qualify the generalization and introduce an exception in the speaker’s own theory. Their presence does not vindicate the claim, but omitting them would make its already hostile account more absolute than the transmitted wording.
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- Book 1 · Generation · Passage 8Latin“ita ut fere nulli excedant 3. diem inter homines, nisi”