“Vītis quidem, quae nātūra cadūca est et, nisi fūlta est, fertur ad terram, eadem, ut sē ērigat clāviculīs suīs quasi manibus quicquid est nacta, complectitur […] .”

Indeed the vine, which is naturally prone to falling and is trailed along the ground unless supported, nonetheless embraces whatever it catches hold of with [its] tendrils — as if they were hands — in order to raise itself up. (Cicero first used the example to describe one of the fascinations of an elderly farmer.)

“Iam vērō vītēs sīc clāviculīs adminicula tamquam manibus adprehendunt atque ita sē ērigunt ut animantēs […] .”

The vines we see take hold on props with [their] tendrils, as if with hands, and raise themselves as if they were animated. (Cicero used the example again, and similarly worded, to describe the life-force in nature.)

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Medius superior
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