Living in loose speech — living water and living fire
Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.
Loose speech: anything that seems self-moving is called living.
Living water / living fire vs stagnant dead water.
Flame and spring-water looked spontaneous.
Latin
I. Notione communissima & generalissima ac in usu communi loquendi vivere dicuntur ea quae quovis modo nobis seipsa movere apparent, sic dicimus aquam vivam & ignem vivum, quia flamma pluribus motibus sponte sua cieri videtur, & etiam aqua e fonte scaturiens, cui aquae mortuae stagnorum opponuntur.