As lamentable effects are caused by such terrible objects heard, read, or seen, auditus maximos motus in corpore facit, as Plutarch holds, no sense makes greater alteration of body and mind: sudden speech sometimes, unexpected news, be they good or bad, praevisa minus oratio, will move as much, animum obruere, et de sede sua dejicere, as a [2150]philosopher observes, will take away our sleep and appetite, disturb and quite overturn us.

It is true that he elsewhere (p. 568) attributes to the intellect a proprius motus of transition, but says that [Footnote 1: Apply this to the case of 'book-on-table'!