Apian, Petrus, Cosmographia
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head136" style="it" xml:space="preserve">MODIS OMNIBVS ORNATISS.
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          ac verè Nobili D. Ioanni Khreutter, Sereniſſ. Reginæ Hun-
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          gariæ Secretario, Gemma Friſius S. D.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2772" xml:space="preserve">INter multa variaq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2773" xml:space="preserve">animantium genera, quæ diuerſiſſimis ac ad
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            miratione dignis effinxit natura dotibus, vix inuemas vir orna
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            tiſſ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2774" xml:space="preserve">aliquod, quod minus ſuo fungatur officio atque bumanum
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            genus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2775" xml:space="preserve">Quod quum à Deo Opt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2776" xml:space="preserve">Max. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2777" xml:space="preserve">creatum ſit perfectiſſi-
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            mum, ratione illa diuina animi parte præditum, qua & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2778" xml:space="preserve">ea quæ rectè fiunt eli
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            geret, ſectareturq́;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2779" xml:space="preserve">: & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2780" xml:space="preserve">ea quæ præter officium ſunt, fugeret, deteſtareturq́;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2781" xml:space="preserve">:
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            nihil minus agit, imò quaſi quadam animi proteruit ate in contrarium abripitur
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            ac ſeducitur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2782" xml:space="preserve">Vbi videmus ediuerſo cætera omnia animantia ſuum quodq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2783" xml:space="preserve">pera-
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            gere ſedulò officiũ, quod ipſi à natura inditum eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2784" xml:space="preserve">Ciconias grata viciſsitudine
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            Ver aduentu ſuo nuntiare, receſſu Autumnũ, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2785" xml:space="preserve">interim leges certas & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2786" xml:space="preserve">quaſi
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            viuendi modum (ſi Plinio credimus) obſeruare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2787" xml:space="preserve">Philomela ſtatis temporibus dul
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            ciſſimis demulcet noctis horrorẽ cantibus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2788" xml:space="preserve">Gallus tempora certis diſtinguit in-
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            teruallis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2789" xml:space="preserve">Denique non ſolum viuentia hæc, verùm etiam cuncta, quibus tamen
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            anima denegata eſt, certa quadam lege ducuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2790" xml:space="preserve">Tellus ſuos fructus cum fœ
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            nore reddit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2791" xml:space="preserve">Oceanus, Luna duce, certis ſtatisq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2792" xml:space="preserve">temporibus tellurẽ ambit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2793" xml:space="preserve">atq;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2794" xml:space="preserve">adeò omnia legem ſibi ab æterno præſcriptam obſeruant, vt hic nihil iam deſy
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            deretur niſi ſolus homo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2795" xml:space="preserve">Cui & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2796" xml:space="preserve">ſi os ſublime dederit, cœlumq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2797" xml:space="preserve">tueri iuſſerit ſum
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            mus ille rerum autor, ſolus tamen ille ſtudio vilium rerum atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2798" xml:space="preserve">abiectarum de-
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            tentus, deſidet atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2799" xml:space="preserve">ceſſat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2800" xml:space="preserve">Verùm de horum numero cùm non omnes cenſendi ve
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            niant homines, tum verò minimè tuum nomen eis adnumerandũ erit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2801" xml:space="preserve">Qui inter
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            ardua perpetuaq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2802" xml:space="preserve">Principum negotia (quod nigro Cygno rarius eſt) omnis ta
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            men generis artes diſciplinasq́;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2803" xml:space="preserve">, quibus animus hominis potior pars & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2804" xml:space="preserve">eruditur
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2805" xml:space="preserve">exornatur, tanto ſtudio ſectaris & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2806" xml:space="preserve">tueris, vt te illis penitus addixiſſe videri
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            poſsis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2807" xml:space="preserve">Quæ ſanè res me adeò in tui amorem venerationemq́ pertraxit, (quem
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            enim non moueret) vt iam audeam etiam tanquam pulchrum quiddam facturus
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            cum exiguo munuſculo in tuum prodire conſpectum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2808" xml:space="preserve">Quod quidem mihi neque
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            temeritati, neq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2809" xml:space="preserve">audaciæ adſcribi ab aliquo vellem: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2810" xml:space="preserve">tibi verò id gratum fore nõ
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            dubito, cui quicquid ab animo rectè ac ſyncerè proficiſcitur, diſplicere nõ poteſt. </s>
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            Quod autem ad hunc noſtrum Annulum attinet, vt ingenuè fatear (ingenui
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            enim eſt, inquit Plin. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2812" xml:space="preserve">fateri à quo profeceris) meum non eſt omnino inuentum
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            illud: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2813" xml:space="preserve">attamen ſi inuentis addere, eaq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2814" xml:space="preserve">dilatare laudi ducendum ſit, in his nomen
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            profiteor meum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2815" xml:space="preserve">Annulũ enim hactenus horas tantùm diei, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2816" xml:space="preserve">mundi quatuor
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            regiones exhibentẽ, ita auximus, vt iam cum quouis inſtrumento certet mathe
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            matico. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2817" xml:space="preserve">Quicquid enim longis verborum connexibus de Quadrantibus, Chilin
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            dris, Aſtrolabiis, ab aliis paſſim traditur, id ferè in hunc vnicum Annulum con
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            geſtum est. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2818" xml:space="preserve">Quem, vt vidi Principe dignum eſſe ornamentum, neq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2819" xml:space="preserve">ſolum orna
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            mentum, verumetiam vtilitatem non iniucundam præ ſe ferre, non potui com-
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            mittere, quin tibi, cui omnia ſuo tempore agenti, hæc res vſui futura videbatur
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            hunc noſtrum quantulumcunq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2820" xml:space="preserve">dedicarem laborem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2821" xml:space="preserve">Tu verò pro tua in nos hu
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            manitate boni noſtram conſulere tenuitatem, magnitudinemq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2822" xml:space="preserve">munuſculi non
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            ex ipſo, ſed ex animi noſtri affectu metiri velis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2823" xml:space="preserve">Vale.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2825" xml:space="preserve">Ex Louanio Calend. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2826" xml:space="preserve">Feb. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2827" xml:space="preserve">1534.</s>
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