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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Peter Dinzelbacher wrote: > a colleague working on medieval medicine asked me from whence the quotation > "nascimur inter faeces et urinam" might come. I thought of an ancient > writer like Galen or Pliny - Or rather some contemptus mundi-text like that > of Innocence III.? ( of this we have no edition at Salzburg). > I could not solve the question. But perhaps someone in the net can? at least we can exclude Lothar of Segni (he wrote "De miseria humane conditionis" before he became pope Innocent III): this particular sentence is neither to be found in De miseria humane conditionis nor in any other of Lothar's/Innocent's writings. all best Cchristoph Egger %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%