Mixtio

Latin-English

mixtĭ|ō, -ōnis. (ˈmik.sti.o) fem.

1. A mixing; a mixture.

[misceo.]

Loci

• αʹ Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.4:

Namque e principiis quae Graeci στοιχεῖα appellant, ut omnia corpora sunt composita, id est e calore et umore, terreno et aere, et ita mixtionibus naturali temperatura figurantur omnium animalium in mundo generatim qualitates.

Indeed, as all bodies are composed of the elements, which the Greeks call στοιχεῖα—that is, from heat and moisture, earth and air—so also all sorts of animals in the world are formed after their kind by being mixed according to their natural proportions.