Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

¶How the Soule tooke name of the Gentiles. Chap. 5.

ISidore sayeth, that Anima the Soule, was named of the Gentiles: For that by their opinion it is winde & breath: For we by drawing of ayre at the mouth séeme to liue. But this opini∣on is openlye falsée, for the Soule is put into the bodye, long before the ayre bée taken at the mouth. For it liueth bée∣ing in the mothers wombe, when our Lorde maketh the Soule, and putteth it therein. And it is called Soule be∣cause it liueth, and it giueth lyfe to the bodie, that it is put in. And it is called spirit, because it hath in it selfe, spiritu∣all, animall, and kindlye lyfe: And be∣cause it maketh the bodye Spirare, that is, to breath. Also the same thing is Anima and Animus: but Anima lea∣deth the lyfe by reason, and Animus by counsaile and guiding. Therefore Phi∣losophers saye, that Anima, that is a lyfe, abideth with Animus, that is coun∣saile. Also Anima the Soule, is cal∣led Mens, the Minde, because it app••a∣reth aboue as head, or because it min∣deth. By the Soule, man is the Image of God. Also many names of the soule bée so coupled together, so that often∣times one name is put for another, and the Soule that is one, is called by di∣uerse names in diuerse respectes. It is called Anima, while it is in the bodye and giueth it lyfe. Mens whilest it hath minde, Animus, whilest it hath will: Racio while it déemeth or iudgeth rightfully: Spiritus while it breatheth: Sensus while it féeleth. And for these propertyes of the Soule, cunning, that is the qualytie of the Soule, is called Sciencia, and hath the name of Sen∣sus, féeling. Hetherto speaketh Isidore. liber. 15. Chap. 14.