Et muliebre oritur patrio de semine saeclum, maternoque mares existunt corpore creti; semper enim partus duplici de semine constat, atque utri similest magis id quodcumque creatur, eius habet plus parte aequa; quod cernere possis, sive virum suboles sivest muliebris origo.
Female children also spring from their fathers seed, and male children appear made of their mothers substance; for the birth always is made out of both seeds, and whichever parent the offspring resembles, of that parent it has more than half; which you may discern, whether the child be male or female.
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