iam quid hic tergum spinamque commemorem? de cuius licet internodiorum fomitibus erumpens arcam pectoris texat curvatura costarum, tota nihilominus haec ossium ramosa compago sub uno velut exundantis abdominis pelago latet.
Why go on to mention his back and his spine? Though the curvature of his ribs, bursting from their starting-points in the joints of the vertebrae, forms the fabric of the chest, still all this branch-like structure of bones is hidden, so to speak, beneath one great sea of overflowing abdomen.
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