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Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p17

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Ne genae quidem omnibus. ideo neque nictatio nisi iis quae animal generant, graviores alitum inferiore gena conivent, eaedem nictantur ab angulis membrana obeunte. columbae et similia utraque conivent; at quadripedes quae ova pariunt, ut testudines, crocodili, inferiore tantum sine ulla nictatione propter praeduros oculos. extremum ambitum genae superioris antiqui cilium vocavere, unde et supercilia . hoc vulnere aliquo diductum non coalescit, ut in paucis humani corporis membris.

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