At 05:04 PM 3/31/99 +0200, 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?
>
>
According to William Butler Yeats, who must have been familiar with the
quote or at least the commonplace, "But Love has pitched his mansion in /
The place of excrement; / For nothing can be sole or whole / That has not
been rent." ("Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop")
Tom Long
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