contegunt. inuidia quadam nature ne tale egestio transeat
in usum humanum; linces dicit plinius extra unum non
admittere fetum;

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cover it up, in a certain meanness of nature, lest such a waste product should pass
into human use. The lynx, says Pliny, does not conceive more than one
offspring.