LIBER IX · CAPUT 58
THE MICE OF THE NILE
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Verum omnibus his fidem Nili inundatio adfert omnia excedente miraculo. quippe detegente eo musculi reperiuntur inchoato opere genitalis aquae terraeque, iam parte corporis viventes, novissima effigie etiamnum terrena.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
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 mice 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.