Natural History, Book vii. Sect. 6.
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.[718:5]
Natural History, Book vii. Sect. 8.
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.[718:6]
Natural History, Book vii. Sect. 15.
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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
Natural History. Book vii. Sect. 77.
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.[719:1]
Natural History. Book viii. Sect. 103.