Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              Nouembri menſe adhuc viridia colligunt,
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              ac expoſita ſub Sole triduo, nigra efficiunt.
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              <s id="s.006009">Cæterum arboris folium plantaginis folio
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              quaſi perſimile, quod pediculo admodum
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              breui adhæret ſurculo iunctum: ſed qua
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              parte pediculo iungitur, folium ea rotundum
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              eſt, in ſummo autem vertice mucronatum,
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              non ſecùs ac medicæ mali, folia illa quæ in
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              mucronem deſinunt: à tergo folij ſeptem
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              nerui ſunt, vt in plantagine: ſed non oriun­
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              tur qui à lateribus, ab eo qui eſt in medio,
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              verùm ex interuallis, ab imo ad ſupremum
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              folij tendentes, medium ſepiunt, obliquè
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              quaſi diſpoſiti, nec ex æquo, nec craſſitu­
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              do illa quæ folio mali medici. </s>
              <s id="s.006010">Longi autem
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              piperis procerior arbor, & folia maiora
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              quàm rotundi, attamen ſimillima. </s>
              <s id="s.006011">Satis au­
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              tem conſtat vt cinamomum arborem lauri
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              eſſe docuimus, ita piper hederæ ſpeciem,
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              regionis cœlo perfectam ac excultam: quip­
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              pe in Calechuto Indiæ naſcitur, atque etiam
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              in agro ſuburbano. </s>
              <s id="s.006012">Huius quod diximus ar­
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              gumentum erit, quòd tranſlata ad nos hæc
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              arbor, paucis propagationibus in hederam
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              tranſibit. </s>
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              Garyophy­
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              lum.</s>
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              Zingiber.</s>
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              Piper.</s>
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              <s id="s.006016">Scio hæc aduerſari Dioſcoridi: ſed anti­
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              qui audita ſcripſerunt: audaciores, neceſſi­
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              tate & ſtudio gloriæ, cuius cauſa venia
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              digni ſunt? </s>
              <s id="s.006017">alioqui neque laboribus, nec
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              diligentiæ, aut pecuniæ parcentes. </s>
              <s id="s.006018">Sed à ga­
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              ryophylo fructu flos quidam apud nos ſua­
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              uitate odoris nomen ſumpſit. </s>
              <s id="s.006019">Candidus
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              eſt, alius rubens, alius è duobus colori­
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              bus miſtus: humilis herba, porri foliis,
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              ſed anguſtioribus: maxima cura in vaſis
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              educatur, nec minus iucundus aſpectu quàm
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              odore.
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              Garyophy­
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              lus flos.</s>
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              Thus.</s>
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              <s id="s.006022">Eſt & thuris planta, cuius lachryma ſuffiri
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              templa ſolent, quòd odore ſit iucundiſſimo,
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              dum ardet. </s>
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              <s id="s.006023">Abies, hæc eſt puſilla: quæ apud Sabæos, ob
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              ſiccitatem cœli, lachrymam hanc mittit.
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              <s id="s.006024">Vnde Mutuanus Poëta:
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              ——Molles ſua thura Sabæi.
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              <s id="s.006025">Validior quæ ſpontè fluit, imbecillior
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              quæ ex ſaucia arbore: quod in omnibus li­
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              quoribus obſeruatione dignum. </s>
              <s id="s.006026">Sed apud
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              nos, abieti vnica laus eſt, quòd rectà ma­
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              ximè inter arbores aſſurgat: propterea in
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              plaſtices proplaſmatis atque fabrili omni
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              alio opere cunctis aliis lignis præfertur, vt
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              quod vix in aliis nec tutò conſequi arte poſ­
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              ſis, in huius arboris trunco natura optimè
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              præſtet. </s>
              <s id="s.006027">In tantam verò magnitudinem cre­
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              ſcit, vt in Zofingen, Bernenſis Prouinciæ
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              Heluetiorum, pleræque centum & triginta
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              pedes longitudine ſuperent. </s>
              <s id="s.006028">Pars verò re­
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              cta, craſſa, vndique æqualiter & eno­
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              dis, pedes centum & decem. </s>
              <s id="s.006029">Vnde tam
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              longo tractu Ianuam ( ſeu Genuam appel­
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              lare malis ) ad malos nauium fabricandos,
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              vehi merentur: ſiquidem primùm per Aro­
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              lam fluuium adducuntur, inde Rhenum, po­
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              ſtea per mare Anglicum, inde Hiſpanum,
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              demum Mediterraneum deducuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.006030">Vidi­
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              mus nos dum Genuæ eſſemus, plures incre­
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              dibili proceritate, rectitudine, æqualitate
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              atque craſſitie, vt mirari neceſſe eſſet natu­
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              ræ conatum. </s>
              <s id="s.006031">Naſcitur in montibus, teſte
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              Virgilius.
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              ——Abies in montibus altis.
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              Abies ſola ex
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              arboribus,
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              ſpontè recta. </s>
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              Abietis ma­
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              gnitudo in­
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              credibilis.</s>
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              <s id="s.006034">Cauſa horum eſt primùm ſucci copia: ne­
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              que enim ſine materia quicquam magnum
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              eſſe poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006035">Inde viuacitas: nam tempore
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              augmentum indiget. </s>
              <s id="s.006036">Eſt etiam minimè mul­
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              tifida natura neruorum, quibus arboris cau­
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              dex conſtat, ſed ſimplex, & enodis, quia
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              humidi ſubſtantia æqualis eſt, & terreo
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              æqualiter miſta. </s>
              <s id="s.006037">Quòd verò nerui ſimplices
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              ſint, hoc contingit ex vi propriæ ſpeciei:
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              nam hypericum vndequaque bifidum eſt,
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              alia ſimiliter in neruorum multitudine ean­
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              dem ſeruant rationem. </s>
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              <s id="s.006038">Sed ad thuris redeo hiſtoriam. </s>
              <s id="s.006039">Vt ſabina
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              cupreſſo, ita libanotis abieti proxima eſt,
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              quòd arbuſculoſa ex arboris genere ſit: ita­
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              que in Apennino herbam, aut potius ſuf­
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              fruticem libanotidi ſimile, imo ex illius ge­
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              nere, anguſtioribus foliis, acri ſapore, vi­
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              di, quod ita thuris odorem, ſaporémque
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              refert, vt non dubium ſit, thus non ex alio
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              plantæ genere fluere. </s>
              <s id="s.006040">Ergo thuris arbor,
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              abies, libanotiſque, eiuſdem ſunt generis,
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              ſed
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              qualitate & naturæ robore dif­
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              ferunt, Thus in Arabia fœcunditate ſoli
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              prodit è planta: frigore cœlo abies in arbo­
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              rem creſcit, & lachrymam minus effica­
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              cem, copioſiorem tamen, emittit. </s>
              <s id="s.006041">Liba­
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              notis nomine thus referens, ſiccior abiete,
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              non excreſcit in arborem, frigidior thure
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              lachrymam emittere nequit. </s>
              <s id="s.006042">Vires tamen
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              ex his coniectari & vſum transferre licet,
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              mirarique naturæ in his opera: nam eadem
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              fermè ratio in cunctis arborum, & herba­
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              rum generibus. </s>
              <s id="s.006043">Thus verò ipſum ſeu lachry­
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              ma non eiuſdem generis, nec æqualis apud
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              omnes. </s>
              <s id="s.006044">Æthiopicum nanque adeò fragrat,
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              vt noſtrum hoc thus dici non mereatur: ſed
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              non omne, verùm ſpecies tantùm quædam.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.006045">Indicio eſt quòd rarum id ſit, & etiam apud
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              illos in pretio: quamobrem eo ſolùm vtun­
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              tur Reges, quos Neguz materna lingua vo­
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              cant, ad ſuffitus ceremoniarum. </s>
              <s id="s.006046">Neque mi­
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              rum: ſpecies enim ſunt & equorum, & ca­
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              num, atque ſingulorum quædam genero­
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              ſiores, nonnihil conferente ſolo. </s>
              <s id="s.006047">Facit & ad
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              id arborum cultus, vt quæ inter lapides, &
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              in apricis locis, & colligendi ſucci modus,
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              aut quoniam ſyncerum omnino eſt, aut quia
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              ſpontè manat, velut de vinis, quorum diſ­
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              crimina colligendi atque extrahendi ratione
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              tam multa ac varia ſunt, atque adeò ma­
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              gna, vt vix credere cuiquam liceat, qui non
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              experiatur. </s>
              <s id="s.006048">Nam plerique ſucci igne adu­
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              runtur: & qui inter eos arteriaci vocantur,
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              peſſimi: vt liquiritiæ ſeu glycyrrhizæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006049">Op­
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              timus ſuccus omnis, qui tranſlucet & con­
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              ſiſtit: nam quia tranſlucet, purus eſt, &
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              minimè aduſtus: quum conſiſtit, pingui hu­
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              mio abundat. </s>
              <s id="s.006050">Sic aloës optima, & reliqui
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              ſucci, tum lachrymæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006051">Sed thymiamatum
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              ratio longè diuerſa: nam odor eſt in ſiccato
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              humido: nec comburi debet, ignis enim
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              non olet, ſed fumus: non igitur puluis,
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              exuritur enim, & non emittit fumum. </s>
              <s id="s.006052">Quæ­
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              cunque igitur olent, craſſa eſſe oportet: &
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              quæ ſubſtantia ſunt craſſiore, vt thus, mo­
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              dicè contrita. </s>
              <s id="s.006053">Puluis autem tenuiſſimus ni­
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              hil olet, & quanto rei fuerit ſubſtantiæ te­
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              nuioris. </s>
              <s id="s.006054">Sed & aqueum humidum impedit </s>
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