• Attributed to a church father in Freud's Dora; Freud seems to have found it in an anatomy textbook by Josef Hyrtl (1867), where it was attributed to a church father; it may have been invented by Hyrtl. http://books.google.com/books?id=yw3tglAWxNAC&pg=RA1-PR72&lpg=RA1-PR72&dq=%22inter+urinas+et+faeces+nascimur%22+hyrtl&source=bl&ots=2sjrc-dGEs&sig=MDvt7D74M5JPozL1HKnN1FEmxbY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vHJtUuneKJjb4APXq4CIAQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22inter%20urinas%20et%20faeces%20nascimur%22%20hyrtl&f=false For Hyrtl's quotation see http://books.google.com/books?id=qrEaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820&dq=nascimur+inauthor:Hyrtl&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z3RtUru2LMzKkAfnm4DoAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=nascimur%20inauthor%3AHyrtl&f=false.
• An early similar phrase appears in a work by the 16th century philosopher Mark Antony Zimara: Quippe si se inter stercus & urinam conceptum fuisse reminisceretur [...] non utique superbiret. ("Since, if [man] remembered that he was conceived between dung and urine, [...] he obviously would not feel pride.") (Source: Problemata Aristotelis ac philosophorum medicorumque complurium, Lyon 1557, p. 154)
Inter faeces et urinas nascimur.
• Variant: We are born amid feces and urine.
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Inter faeces et urinas nascimur.
• Variant: We are born amid feces and urine." in the context of "We are born between feces and urine.
• Attributed to a church father in Freud's Dora; Freud seems to have found it in an anatomy textbook by Josef Hyrtl (1867), where it was attributed to a church father; it may have been invented by Hyrtl. http://books.google.com/books?id=yw3tglAWxNAC&pg=RA1-PR72&lpg=RA1-PR72&dq=%22inter+urinas+et+faeces+nascimur%22+hyrtl&source=bl&ots=2sjrc-dGEs&sig=MDvt7D74M5JPozL1HKnN1FEmxbY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vHJtUuneKJjb4APXq4CIAQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22inter%20urinas%20et%20faeces%20nascimur%22%20hyrtl&f=false For Hyrtl's quotation see http://books.google.com/books?id=qrEaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820&dq=nascimur+inauthor:Hyrtl&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z3RtUru2LMzKkAfnm4DoAQ&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=nascimur%20inauthor%3AHyrtl&f=false.
• An early similar phrase appears in a work by the 16th century philosopher Mark Antony Zimara: Quippe si se inter stercus & urinam conceptum fuisse reminisceretur [...] non utique superbiret. ("Since, if [man] remembered that he was conceived between dung and urine, [...] he obviously would not feel pride.") (Source: Problemata Aristotelis ac philosophorum medicorumque complurium, Lyon 1557, p. 154)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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