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THe (a) Maniches] They held all flesh the worke of the deuill, not of GOD, and there∣fore they forbad their hearers to kill any creatures, least they should offend the Princes of darkenesse from whom they sayd all flesh had originall: and if they vsed their wiues, yet must they auoide generation, least the diuine substance which goeth into them by their nourish∣ment should bebound in the fleshly bonds of the child begotten. Aug: ad Quod vult deum. The Prisci•…•…ianists held thus also. (b) Noble spe•…•…ker] So he called Tully before, and Virgil now. (c) contagion] Or, habitacle. (d) Sorrow] Tullie calls it egritudo, Tusc. 3.