The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will … - Pliny the Elder

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The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

Pliny the Elder

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

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