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The Natural History of Pliny, Vol. 2

by Pliny the Elder

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Chap. 84 (58.) — The Mice of the Nile

But all these things, singular as they are, are rendered credible by a marvel which exceeds them all, at the time of the inundation of the Nile; for, the moment that it subsides, little mice2841 are found, the first rudiments of which have been formed by the generative powers of the waters and the earth: in one part of the body they are already alive, while in that which is of later formation, they are still composed of earth.

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