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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Sleep initially explains the lion story by comparison, but the author immediately limits the likeness. A natural sleeper must wake, whereas the lions would allegedly remain dead without the parental cry. This correction is essential to the argument: the example is intended as acquisition of life, not merely awakening. The distinction also shows why a nearby analogy should not be read as a literal equivalence.
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- Book 6 · Resuscitation · Passage 5Latin“non quod sic dormiant”