ne forte ex homine et veterino semine equorum confieri credas Centauros posse neque esse, aut rabidis canibus succinctas semimarinis corporibus Scyllas, et cetera de genere horum, inter se quorum discordia membra videmus; quae neque florescunt pariter nec robora sumunt corporibus neque proiciunt aetate senecta, nec simili Venere ardescunt nec moribus unis conveniunt, neque sunt eadem iucunda per artus: quippe videre licet pinguescere saepe cicuta barbigeras pecudes, homini quae est acre venenum.
I say this that you may not believe that Centaurs can be formed or be, composed of man and the seed of the burden-bearing horse, or that a Scylla can exist with body half fish and a girdle of ravening dogs, and all other such monsters in which we see the members to be incompatible, which are not in their prime together, nor come to their bodily strength together, nor lose strength in old age, nor burn with passion alike, nor agree in habits, nor find the same things pleasant for their bodies. In fact you may see that bearded goats often grow fat on hemlock, which for man is rank poison.
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