Nulla enim ex omnibus rebus tantas habere videtur ad usum necessitates, quantas aqua, ideo quod omnium animalium natura, si frumenti fructu privata fuerit, arbustivo aut carne aut piscatu aut etiam qualibet ex his reliquis rebus escarum utendo poterit tueri vitam, sine aqua vero nec corpus animalium nec ulla cibi virtus potest nasci nec tueri nec parari.
For of all things, not one seems to be so necessary for use as water, since the nature of all animals, though it be deprived of the use of com, can maintain life from shrubs or meat or fish or some other provender. But without water, neither the animal frame nor any virtue of food can originate, be maintained, or provided.
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