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Isidore merely says, "Hippopodes in Scythia sunt, humanam formam et equinos pedes habentes."

Back in action! 2008

Isidore merely says, "Hippopodes in Scythia sunt, humanam formam et equinos pedes habentes."

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

The original Latin of HV's assertion reads quilibet matrimonii usus ad vitam humanam procreandam per se destinatus permaneat; the Vatican translation I've used, though not literal, is superior to the better-known one using the phrase "open to the transmission of life," but I mention that only to minimize confusion about which passage I'm discussing.

Condomania Mike L 2008

Ultra humanam fragilitatem prolixi, ut immature pereat qui centenarius moriatur, &c. 4082.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Qui cùm transirent per deserta quædam, monstra inuenerunt effigiem humanam habentia, quæ non nisi vnum brachium cum manu in medio pectoris, et vnum pedem habebant, et duo cum vno arco sagittabant, adeóque fortiter currebant, quòd equi eos inuestitare non poterant.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

Quas cùm per multos interpretes interrogassent, vbi viri terræ illius essent, responderunt, quòd in illa terra quænunque foeminæ nascebantur, habebant formam humanam, masculi vero speciem caninam.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

Inde ad quandam terram super Oceanum peruenerunt, vbi monstra quædam inuenerunt, quæ per omnia formam humanam habebant, sed pedes bouinos, et caput quidem humanum, sed faciem vt canis.

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

Creditis quod nunquam sumpserit humanam naturam: Dixerunt, minime.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

In huius deserti interioribus, vidi homines in toto syluestres, qui etsi in superioribus formam praetendere videantur humanam, descendunt in subterioribus ad formam bestiæ alicuius.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004