ipsi sidentes non possunt eandem altitudinem qua est tectorium, tenere, contractioneque moti non haerent cum eo, sed ab coniunctione eius disparantur;
Hence they settle and cannot keep the same height as the plaster. For by contraction and the consequent movement they cease to stick to the plaster, and are separated from their union with it.
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