uti etiam corpora muliebria, cum conceperint, ad foetus a partu non iudicantur integra, neque in venalibus ea, cum sunt praegnantia, praestantur sana, ideo quod in corpore praeseminatio crescens ex omnibus cibi potestatibus detrahit alimentum in se, et quo firmior efficitur ad maturitatem partus, eo minus patitur esse solidum id ex quo ipsum procreatur.
Females also, when they have conceived offspring, are not adjudged sound until delivery; and in the case of slaves, they are not guaranteed sound when they are pregnant, because the fertilisation as it spreads in the body draws nourishment to itself from the potencies of the food; and the stronger the offspring is rendered for its ripening, the less solid does it allow that to be from which it is engendered.
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