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habent curam sauciorum. Nam fossos [A: fessos] vulneratosque in
medium receptant.\ De castore.\ Est animal quod dicitur castor\
mansuetum nimis,\ cuius testiculi medicine sunt\ aptissimi, de quo
dicit\ Phisiologus, quia cum vena\torem se insequentem cog\novit,
morsu testiculos sibi\ abscidit, et in faciem vena\toris eos proicit
et sic fugiens\ evadit. Si vero rursus conti\gerit ut alter venator
eum prosequatur, erigit se et os\tendit virilia sua venatori. Quem
cum viderit testi\culis carere, ab eo discedit. Sic omnis qui iuxta
mandatum\ dei versatur et caste vult vivere, secat a se omnia vicia,
et\ omnes impudicitie actus, et proicit eos a se in faciem diaboli.\
Tunc ille videns eum nichil suorum habentem, confusus\ ab eo discedit.
Ille vero vivit in deo, et non capitur a diabolo, qui dicit:\ persequar,
et comprehendam eos. Castor dicitur a castrando.\ De animali
quod dicitur ibex.\ Est animal quod dicitur ibex, duo cornua
habens, quorum tanta vis est, ut si \ ab alto montis ad yma dimissus
[A: demissus] fuerit, corpus eius totum iis duobus cornibus \ sustentetur.
Significat autem eruditos homines qui duorum testamen\
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Translation
of the wounded. For they take the exhausted and the injured back
into their midst. Of the beaver There is an animal called
the beaver, which is extremely gentle; its testicles are are highly
suitable for medicine. Physiologus says of it that, when it knows
that a hunter is pursuing it, it bites off its testicles and throws
them in the hunter's face and, taking flight, escapes. But if, once
again, another hunter is in pursuit, the beaver rears up and displays
its sexual organs. When the hunter sees that it lacks testicles,
he leaves it alone. Thus every man who heeds God's commandment and
wishes to live chastely should cut off all his vices and shameless
acts, and cast them from him into the face of the devil. Then the
devil, seeing that the man has nothing belonging to him, retires
in disorder. That man, however, lives in God and is not taken by
the devil, who says: 'I will pursue, I will overtake them...'(Exodus,
15:9) The name castor comes from castrando, 'castrate'. Of the
animal called the ibex There is an animal called the ibex, which
has two horns of such strength that, if it were to fall from a high
mountain to the lowest depths, its whole body would be supported
by those two horns. The ibex represents those learned men |
