Flamma quidem vero cum corpora fulva leonum tam soleat torrere atque urere quam genus omne visceris in terris quodcumque et sanguinis extet, qui fieri potuit, triplici cum corpore ut una, prima leo, postrema draco, media ipsa, Chimaera ore foras acrem flaret de corpore flammam? Quare etiam tellure nova caeloque recenti talia qui fingit potuisse animalia gigni, nixus in hoc uno novitatis nomine inani, multa licet simili ratione effutiat ore, aurea tum dicat per terras flumina vulgo fluxisse, et gemmis florere arbusta susse, aut hominem tanto membrorum esse impete natum, trans maria alta pedum nisus ut ponere posset et manibus totum circum se vertere caelum.
Again, seeing that fire is accustomed to scorch and to burn the tawny bodies of lions as much as every kind in the world that consists of flesh and blood, how could it be that a Chimaera, threefold body in one, lion in front, serpent behind, goat in the middle, could breathe out fierce fire from its body? Therefore also he that supposes that such animals could have been born when earth was young and heaven new, depending upon this one empty word newness, may with equal reason babble on without end, saying that then rivers of gold used commonly to flow over the earth, that trees used to have jewels for flowers, that man was born with so great expanse of limbs that he could set his stride across the deep sea and with his hands tum the whole sky about him.
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