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.