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PREFACE.
PRAEFATIO.
TRIA praecipue fuerunt in Arca Noë, ab exitio diluvii conservata: Homines, Animalia et Cibaria. Et hoc indicavit Dominus, cum dixit Noë: Ingredieris in arcam tu et filii tui, uxor tua et uxores filiorum tuorum tecum, et ex cunctis animantibus universae carnis bina induces in arcam, masculini sexus et feminini, ut vivant tecum. Tolles tecum ex omnibus escis quae mandi possunt, et comportabis apud te, et erunt tam tibi quam illis in escam.
Three things chiefly were in the Ark of Noah, preserved from the destruction of the flood: Men, Animals, and Provisions. And the Lord indicated this when he said to Noah: “Thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, thy wife and the wives of thy sons with thee; and of every living creature of all flesh thou shalt bring two into the ark, of the male sex and the female, that they may live with thee. Thou shalt take with thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee, and it shall be food both for thee and for them.”1
Translator’s notes
- The Preface sets the threefold plan of Liber XI: men, animals, provisions. ↩