sin ita sinceris membris ablata profugit ut nullas partis in corpore liquerit ex se, unde cadavera rancenti iam viscere vermes expirant, atque unde animantum copia tanta exos et exanguis tumidos perfluctuat artus? quod si forte animas extrinsecus insinuari vermibus et privas in corpora posse venire credis, nec reputas cur milia multa animarum conveniant unde una recesserit, hoc tamen est ut quaerendum videatur et in discrimen agendum, utrum tandem animae venentur semina quaeque vermiculorum ipsaeque sibi fabricentur ubi sint, an quasi corporibus perfectis insinuentur.
But if it has departed and fled forth with its component parts so intact that it has left in the body no particles of itself, how do corpses exhale worms from flesh already grown putrid, whence comes all the great mass of living creatures, boneless and bloodless, that surge through the swelling limbs? Now if you believe by any chance that spirits can creep into the worms from without and come one by one into the bodies, if you do not ponder why many thousands of spirits gather together where one has gone away, Here is a question that it seems worth while to ask and to bring under examination, whether in fact the spirits go a-hunting for all the seeds of little worms and themselves make them a habitation, or whether they creep as it were into bodies already formed.
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