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o\oSov§ia, and Holothuria ;* but I should ima- 

 gine, from the context, that they intend those 

 marine bodies, which modern naturalists style 

 Zoophyta, perhaps Alcyonia : for both of the 

 former make them analogous with plants. Yet 

 Aristotle hints that they have life ; a discovery 

 assumed in later times. * 



* Aristot. Hist. An. lib. i. c. 1. de Part. An. lib. iv. c. 5. 

 Plinii Hist. Nat. lib. ix. c. 47. 



