Note 4 — ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD.
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Aristotle, for example, says that “twins are common in Egypt; even three or four at a birth, not rare” (Hist. Anim., vii. 4). And Pliny tells us, that “for a woman to have more than three children at a birth is accounted a portent except in Egypt” (Hist. Nat., vii. 4).