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Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.71.p2

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Existimaverim omnibus sensum et gustatus esse. cur enim alios alia sapores adpetant? in quo vel praecipua naturae varietas et lusus: alia dentibus praedantur, alia unguibus , alia rostri aduncitate carpunt, alia latitudine eruunt, alia acumine excavant, alia sugunt, alia lambunt, sorbent, mandunt, vorant. nec minor varietas in pedum ministerio, ut rapiant, distrahant, teneant, premant, pendeant, tellurem scabere non cessent.

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