The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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head: Lines 56--79 form a second column, lines 80--97 a third one  
see the reproduction of the text on the facsimile PI. CXVIII).  
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Another suggestion for the arrangement of the prophecies is to be  
found among the notes 55--57 on page 357.]  
(Of Bees.)  
And many others will be deprived of their store and their food, and  
will be cruelly submerged and drowned by folks devoid of reason. Oh  
Justice of God! Why dost thou not wake and behold thy creatures thus  
ill used?  
(Of Sheep, Cows, Goats and the like.)  
Endless multitudes of these will have their little children taken  
from them ripped open and flayed and most barbarously quartered.  
(Of Nuts, and Olives, and Acorns, and Chesnuts, and such like.)  
Many offspring shall be snatched by cruel thrashing from the very  
arms of their mothers, and flung on the ground, and crushed.  
(Of Children bound in Bundles.)  
O cities of the Sea! In you I see your citizens--both females and  
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