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1 5 |        was given to it, as indeed Varro writes to Cicero, because
2 8 |     apertures, from which boring' Varro thought that the forehead
3 10|         the eyelashes, from which Varro thinks that the eyes derived
4 10|           the belly. Accordingly, Varro thinks that the name of
5 12|       foeminina. Conceptum igitur Varro et Aristoteles sic fieri
6 12|          accepit. Item mulier (ut Varro interpretatur) a mollitie,
7 14| resemblance of the kidneys? which Varro says are so named because
8 17|      drawing breath from the air. Varro gives this definition: "