Praeterea quoniam cibus auget corpus, alitque;
Scire licet nobis venas, & sanguen, & ossa,
Et nervos alienigenis ex partibus esse, &c.
Besides since meats augment the body, and
Do nourish it, then may we understand
That veins, blood, bones, and likewise sinews may
Consist of divers parts, &c.
The body augments, and is nourished with meats; but
that very food which we use for this purpose, consists
not of one kinde alone: some of it is bread, some flesh, fruit,
wine, &c. which are rarely all of them alienigenous and
dis-like inter se; ergo, neither do our entrails, veins nor
blood, nor indeed any other parts of composition consist
of similar parts. And if this be not instance suffici∣ent,
Transfer item; totidem verbis, utare licebit:
In lignis si flamma latet, fumúsque, cinísque:
Ex alienigenis consistant ligna, necesse est, &c.
Change now the subject, keep the Terms still good;
If flame, smoak, ashes, all do lurk in Wood,
The wood of divers parts it will imply, &c.
Thus, if Anaxagoras object, that all things are blended
and confusedly mixed together in all things, but do so
internally lie hid, that nothing appear to view, save
what is most gross, extrinsecal, predominant and a∣bounding
therein; as, admit them particles of milk,
or blood, which did domineer in any composition; then
he called that, which so appeared, by the name of
blood, milk, &c. à praedominio.
Quod tamen à vera longè ratione repulsum 'st.
Which is as far from truth—
And why?
Conveniebat enim fruges quoque saepe minutas,
Robore cum saxi franguntur, mittere signum
Sanguinis: aut aliquid, nostra quo corpora aluntur, &c.