Isidore of Seville on apes (Latin)

Simiae Graecum nomen est, id est pressis naribus; unde et simias dicimus, quod suppressis naribus sint et facie foeda, rugis turpiter follicantibus; licet et capellarum sit pressum habere nasum. Alii simias Latino sermone vocatos arbitrantur, eo quod multa in eis similitudo rationis humanae sentitur; sed falsum est. 31 Hi elementorum sagaces nova luna exultant, media et cava tristantur. Fetus, quos amant, ante se gestant; neglecti circa matrem haerent. Horum genera quinque sunt […].

Source: Isidor of Seville, Etym. XII, 2, 30-31

Edition: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX, ed. Wallace M. Lindsay (Oxford Classical Texts), 2 vols., Oxford 1911. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Isidore/home.html]. Text and edition are public domain.

Fir a German translation of the above passage, see here.

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