Quintilian saith, that Situm esse is as much to say, as to be situated, ordered, or placed some manner of way; and it is a generall word, com∣prehending all names that doe expresse the site or ordering of the body and parts thereof, as to stand, to sit, to lie either groueling, or right vp, or on the one side: and finally, it comprehendeth all those words which answere to this question, how any thing is situated, as when it is required how Norwich standeth from London, either Northward, Southward, Westward, or Eastward.
Into site naturall and casuall.
That whereby euery part of the body hath his naturall place; as in mans body, the head to stand aboue, the bellie in the midst, and the feet beneath; and so in a tree, the root to belowest, the body in the midst, and the boughes or branches to be highest.
That whereby the position or ordering of the parts is altered any way by accident, as, now to stand vpright, now to stoope, now to sit, or to lie downe, this way, or that way.
The descriptions of places.
Two: First, to admit no contrarietie; for though vpward see∣meth to be contrarie to downward, yet that is vnderstood physi∣cally, and not dialectically. Secondly, it hath neither more, nor lesse; for to stand is no more a site, then to sit, nor sitting more then standing.
All things without life and feeling, doe keepe their site, if by