This work is mutilated and without beginning or end.
During the sack of Brescia in 1512, he was horribly mutilated by some French soldiers.
Hyrcanus, who was Antigonus' only rival, was mutilated and carried to Parthia.
It explains why the Commonitorium has reached us only in a mutilated form.
Obtaining an unbound copy of the De corpore, he saw by the mutilated appearance of the sheets that Hobbes had repeatedly altered his demonstrations before he issued them at last in their actual form, grotesque as it was, rather than delay the book longer.
