ABSTRACT
IN Bk V, Ch. 20, of the Hexameron, the blessed Ambrose relates that when vultures are engendered there has been no previous intercourse, nor do these birds join as mates, but the female conceives without any seed, or union with the male. The children attain an advanced age, for their course of years extends as far as a hundred, and it is unusual for ‘the limit of a narrow span of life to await them’. 1 That is the way they embark upon their existence.
