Namque e principiis quae Graeci stoicheia appellant, ut omnia corpora sunt conposita, id est e calore et umore, terreno et aere, et ita mixtionibus naturali temperatura figurantur omnium animalium in mundo generatim qualitates.
For according as from the elements (which the Greeks call stoecheia) all bodies are composed, that is from heat and moisture and earth and air, just so by these mixtures, owing to natural temperament, the qualities of all animals are figured in the world according to their kind.
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