Aristoteles; Strato <Lampsacenus>; Theophrastus, De coloribvs libellvs

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5540" xml:space="preserve">NON eo, ſtudioſe Lector, existimes aliquid in nostro authore de-
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            ſiderari poſse: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5541" xml:space="preserve">quod urinarum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5542" xml:space="preserve">oculorum colores prætermiſe-
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            rit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5543" xml:space="preserve">quin potius id dedita opera, iusta de cauſa factum eſſe tibi per-
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            ſuadeas uelim. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5544" xml:space="preserve">Nam quod colores, communi quadam ac uniuerſali
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            formula tractare instituerit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5545" xml:space="preserve">multa, ut par eſt, particularia, utpote
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            ad artes peculiares ſpectantia præterijt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5546" xml:space="preserve">Deinde, excrementa, ſuam
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            coloris cauſam, penes Philoſophos, habent uniuerſalem: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5547" xml:space="preserve">ipſam nimi-
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            rum concoctionem, uelut aliquando, cum libros Aristotelis, de Par-
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            tibus animalium explicaremus, publice prolixius demonſtr auimus,
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            licet Medicis aliter placeat, qui colorum in excrementis uarietatem
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            humoribus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5548" xml:space="preserve">ſuccis corporum adſcribunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5549" xml:space="preserve">Quare nobis non est
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            magni facienda illa Actuarij diuiſio, qui ad nouem fere principes
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            ſpecies, omnes urinarum colores redegit, tum quod Medicorum more
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            particularius urinarum diſcrimina tradere uoluerit, tum quod eos
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            potius a materia, quam a differẽtijs proprijs ſumpſerit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5550" xml:space="preserve">Philoſophis
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            autem cum conſiderent colorem, ut eſt actus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5551" xml:space="preserve">terminus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5552" xml:space="preserve">mo-
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            tiuus perſpicui, inquirendæ ſunt cauſæ, ob quas uariatio apparen-
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            tiæ coloris conting at. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5553" xml:space="preserve">Atque equidem uarios urinarum colores,
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            ad concoctionem referendum eſſe cenſuerim. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5554" xml:space="preserve">Quod uero pertinet ad
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            oculorum colores, quos polliciti ſumus huic operi annectere, etſi
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            ob articularem morbum, quo tenemur, promiſſa nunc præ-
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            ſtare nequeamus tamen ſi fata uolent, ſtudioſis olim
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            abunde hac quoque in parte ſatisfaciemus.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5555" xml:space="preserve">Interim Vale, et quæ inter excu-
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            dendum obrepſere errata,
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            ſic corrige.</s>
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