Turner on birds : a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544 / edited with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix, by A.H. Evans.

  • William Turner
Date:
1903
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Credit: Turner on birds : a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544 / edited with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix, by A.H. Evans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    piens, donec capturam extorqueat. Eadem cum fe deuoratis impleuit conchis, calore uen- tris codlas, euomit, atque ita efculenta legit, teftas excernens. 125] H lERONYMUS. Pelicani cum fuos a ferpente filios occifos inueniunt, lugent, fecj? & fua latera percutiunt, & fanguine excuffo, corpora mortuorum fic re- uiuifcunt. Conradus GeJineriLS^ cum Tiguri agerem, homo ut doclijjimus, ita candidijjimus, huius mihi aids cogni¬ tionem {ut fatear, per quem profeci) primus omniu communicauit, & ideo Germanis leflerd uocari docuit, quod rojiru cochleari fimile haberet. De porphyrione ex Plinio \ Porphyrio folus morfu bibit: idem ex pro¬ prio genere omnem cibii aqua fubinde tingens, deinde pede ad roftrum ueluti manu adferes, laudatiffimi in comagene^. Roftra ijs & prae¬ longa crura rubent. DE REGVLO. Tpo^/Xo?, 7rpea/3v<s, /SaacXev^, trochilus, fenator, regidus, Anglice a uuren, Germanice evqt funingfgen/ ober e^n ^aunfuningf. 26] Aristoteles l Trochilus & fruteta incolit, & foramina, capi difficulter potefl, fugax atque infirmis moribus eft, fed uiftus probitate, & ingenij folertia prae¬ ditus. uocatur idem fenator & rex, quam ob rem aquilam cum eo pugnare referunt. 1 Hist. Nat. Lib. X. cap. xlvi. ^ It almost seems as if ‘Comagene’ should be ‘Commageno,’ in which case we might translate ‘They are highly prized for ointment.’ ^ Hist. An. Bk ix. 75.