"Animalia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dreyfus Les lois agraires p. 97. Varro (R.R. i. 12. 2) is singularly correct in his account of the nature of the disease that arose from the loca palustria:—Crescunt animalia quaedam minuta, quae non possunt oculi consequi, et per aera intus in corpus per os ac nares perveniunt atque efficiunt difficilis morbos. The passage is cited by Voigt (Iwan-Mueller's Handbuch iv. 2. p. 358) who gives a good sketch of the evils ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge |
