1127. About those who make up the province of the chyle reservoir and the beginnings of the thoracic duct,
and similar functions elsewhere
There are demons as well as spirits who, when they are in action, work and speak with a fourfold sound, meaning that there are four beats, like the sound of threshing. Their conversation and the sound [of their action] tramp along to this, so to speak. With some it goes more slowly, with others faster. When it goes still faster, it falls into step with the quickest fourfold or four-footed sounds of those mentioned here and there before [1031, 1036]. By this kind of sound, therefore, one can tell them apart from other demons and spirits.
1127. CONCERNING THOSE WHO CONSTITUTE THE PROVINCE OF THE receptaculum chyli AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE THORACIC DUCT AND SIMILAR FUNCTIONS ELSEWHERE
There are genii, also spirits, who, when they act, both act and speak with a speech of a fourfold sound, so that the terminations are fourfold after the manner of threshing. By these terminations their speech and its sound go out as it were, more slowly with some, more quickly with others. When it is still quicker it coincides with their quickest quadruplicated, or quadrupedal sounds, concerning which elsewhere [see nos. 1014, 1031, 1036. Therefore by this sound they are distinguished from other genii and spirits.
1127. De iis qui provinciam cisternae chyli et ductus thoracici principia, et consimiles functiones alibi, constituunt
Sunt genii, tum spiritus, qui dum agunt, quadruplicato 1
sono et 2
loquela agunt et loquuntur, sic ut termini sint quatuor, modo triturationis, per quos sermo ac sonus eorum quasi ambulat, aliquibus lentior, aliis citior, dum adhuc citior coincidit cum sonis quadruplicatis seu quadrupedibus citissimis 3
eorum, de quibus passim alibi [1031, 1036], sono tali itaque distincti sunt ab aliis geniis [et] 4
spiritibus.
Footnotes:
1. In the Manuscript quadruplicatim in quadruplicato sono emendatum
2. The Manuscript has sono, et
3. in J.F.I. Tafel's edition et Manuscript citissimo
4. sic in J.F.I. Tafel's edition