Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              odores: dum enim manet, non redolet: dum
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              abſumitur, vritur quod pingue eſt: facilius
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              enim abſumitur igne pingue humidum
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              aqueo. </s>
              <s id="s.006055">Pingue verò humidum eſt, quod vri­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.006056">Sic Virgil.
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              In pingui feruent incendia ſucco.
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              Libanotis.</s>
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              Thus Æthio­
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              picum nobi­
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              liſſimum.</s>
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              Aloes opti­
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              ma.
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              <s id="s.006060">Odorum ra­
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              tio.</s>
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              <s id="s.006061">Antequam igitur humidum aqueum ab­
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              ſumatur, vritur pingue, atque ita tollitur
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              fragrantia. </s>
              <s id="s.006062">Sed ad lachrymas arborum atque
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              herbarum reuertor: quarum nobilitas eſt,
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              vel ab odore, vt laſeris, vel à colore, vt lac­
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              ca, quæ ex arbore ceroſa ſimili oritur in
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              orientali India: vel ab vſu, vt laricis, quæ
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              phthiſicis & leproſis maximè confert. </s>
              <s id="s.006063">Vnde
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              æſtuarium ex laricis arboris lignis concale­
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              factum, hos quidem perſanat, illis autem
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              non parum confert, atque adeò vt aqua di­
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              ſtillatione excepta etiam egregiè iuuet
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              vtrumque morbum. </s>
              <s id="s.006064">Sed larix ipſa ad opera
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              melior, cùm non flectatur pluuiis, aut ven­
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              tis. </s>
              <s id="s.006065">Videntur autem abies, larixque, tum pi­
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              nus, eiuſdem eſſe ſpeciei. </s>
              <s id="s.006066">Sed nobilior la­
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              chryma abietis, picea deterior, media lari­
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              cis: conueniunt enim ſucco & forma, & om­
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              nibuſque penè accidentibus. </s>
              <s id="s.006067">Succus verò
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              hic adeò pinguis, velut in animalibus ſan­
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              guis: vnde dilutior in tenerioribus plantis,
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              obſcurior in antiquis, lucidus & pinguis in
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              adultis: ideoque calidior & humidior la­
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              chryma quæcunque ſplendet, frigidior di­
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              luta, ſiccior verò obſcura. </s>
              <s id="s.006068">In larice præcipuè,
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              quaſi fungus quidam extuberat agaricum,
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              qui cùm leuiſſimum fuerit, & candidiſſi­
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              mum, tum minimè lignoſum, tum ab amari­
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              tate dulce, optimum erit. </s>
              <s id="s.006069">Dulcia enim quæ­
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              dam poſt amaritatem, velut cubebarum fru­
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              ctus, & agaricum, ficut poſt dulcedinem
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              amara aloës. </s>
              <s id="s.006070">Cauſa dulcedinis poſt ama­
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              ritatem, eſt ſubſtantia tenuis terra cum hu­
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              mido benè concocto: ſiquidem tenue illud
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              citò expirat dulcior verò pars manet: velut
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              in aloë humidi quidem ſubtilis benè conco­
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              cti pars modica, multum verò terrei craſſi
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              atque exuſti. </s>
              <s id="s.006071">Fit verò vetuſtate in aëre aga­
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              ricum candidius, & leuius ac minus contu­
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              max, vt fermè nihil in ipſo ad perfectio­
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              nem deſiderare poſſe videaris, cùm tamen eo
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              ſit deterius, quo videtur elegantius. </s>
              <s id="s.006072">Hoc au­
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              tem intereſt, vt diſtinguas dulcedine non
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              parua in optimo conſpicua: nam & ex vetu­
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              ſtate fit amarius. </s>
              <s id="s.006073">Oritur igitur quaſi ex ſitu
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              lacrymæ lariciæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006074">Eadem natura fungorum,
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              qui arboribus glandiferis innaſcuntur, vt
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              Ilici, ſed non eadem perfectio, neque enim
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              idem calor, ob id nigri, quibus pro eſca vta­
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              mur. </s>
              <s id="s.006075">Ergo & aliis arboribus commune eſt.
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              <s id="s.006076">Conſentaneum autem rationi, pinguiſſimi
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              ſucci ſolidiſſimum eſſe mucorem: vt verò
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              magis exaruerit, & ſuccus tenuior fuerit,
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              erit quaſi magis concoctus. </s>
              <s id="s.006077">Itaque eſt &
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              modus quidam coctionis, in his quæ ſitum
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              contrahunt: demonſtratum eſt enim, in ſi­
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              tu non perfectam eſſe putredinem. </s>
              <s id="s.006078">Porrò la­
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              ricis planta decora, flore rubenti, atque odo­
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              rato. </s>
              <s id="s.006079">Inter lachrymas pulchritudine ipſa no­
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              biles, eſt ſanguinis draconis ſuccus: à ſimili­
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              tudine ſanguinis animalis dictus. </s>
              <s id="s.006080">Hic oritur
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              in inſula Soquotra, ambitus ſexaginta mil­
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              lia paſſuum in Æihiopico mati poſita, iuxta
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              Gingim promontorium. </s>
              <s id="s.006081">Arbor ipſa mirabi­
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              lis: ſenſim enim in cuſpidem aſcendit, velut
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              ſalis, aut ſacchariconus, ex lato ab imo in
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              anguſtum tendens: quercus folio. </s>
              <s id="s.006082">Lachry­
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              ma huius eſt antiquorum thymiama canca­
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              mus. </s>
              <s id="s.006083">Lacce, quam pro draconis ſanguine
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              quidam ſubſcripſerunt, copia noſtro æuo
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              eſt, ſanguinis draconis autem penuria maxi­
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              ma. </s>
              <s id="s.006084">Adnumeratur odoribus etiam lignum
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              aſpalathi, quod ſuaue eſt, ac refrigerat, non
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              ſecus ac roſa vaciniaque, atque ideo inter
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              rara. </s>
              <s id="s.006085">Cauſa quòd odor iucundus rarò ſit fri­
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              gidus, quia calore perficitur: ob idque calo­
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              rem vincere neceſſe eſt: ob hocque plera­
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              que odorata, quæ aromata Græci vocant
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              calida. </s>
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              Laricis la­
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              chrymæ vi­
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              res.</s>
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              Agaricum.
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              <s id="s.006088">Amara cur
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              quædam, in­
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              de dulcia.</s>
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              Sanguinis
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              draconis ar­
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              bor.</s>
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              Santhalum.
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              <s id="s.006091">Odorata cur
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              plerumque
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              calida.</s>
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              <s id="s.006092">In ſanthalo autem & vaciniis, quæ vio­
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              las cæruleas vocamus, calor eſt in tenuiore
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              tantùm parte, reliquum totum eſt frigidum
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              quod craſſum eſt, moleque ſuperat. </s>
              <s id="s.006093">Sed in
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              his obſcura non eſt frigiditas, velut in ro­
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              ſis, cùm hæ in quibuſdam odore excitent
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              capitis dolorem, in aliis etiam ſanguinem
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              proliciant è naribus. </s>
              <s id="s.006094">Eſt & è frigidarum
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              plantarum bene olentium genere myrtus,
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              arbuſtum ob elegantiam Veneri dicatum:
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              olet bene totum, ligno, fronde, fructu. </s>
              <s id="s.006095">Sed ex
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              fructu defrutum. </s>
              <s id="s.006096">Liquor hic ſeruatur in
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              annum, non minus ſalubris vſu, quàm odo­
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              re iucundus. </s>
              <s id="s.006097">Adnumerari poteſt his ex parte
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              muſcus odorata planta: ſerpit arbores, & vir­
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              tutem illarum quibus hæret: retinet. </s>
              <s id="s.006098">Cedro
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              optimus innaſcitur: poſt larici, demum po­
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              pulo albæ & quercui. </s>
              <s id="s.006099">Quercui deterior. </s>
              <s id="s.006100">Qui
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              larici hæret, facillimè ardet, & ardendo fra­
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              gat ac ſcintillas mittit. </s>
              <s id="s.006101">Verùm muſcus inter
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              herbas potius quam inter arbores adnume­
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              rari meretur: imò ne herba quidem omninò
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006102">Sed aſpalathum arbor eſt in India pro­
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              cera, quæ in frigidiore cœlo, arbuſcula eſt
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              ſpinoſa. </s>
              <s id="s.006103">In calidis enim ac humidis regio­
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              nibus omnia proceriora, ſuccoſiora, viuacio­
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              raque, niſi propria plantæ natura obſtet, adeò
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              vt nemora etiam in occidentali India aſpa­
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              lathi inueniantur. </s>
              <s id="s.006104">At in calidis ac ſiccis re­
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              gionibus minores ſunt plantæ & ſicciores,
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              validæ tamen in humidis ac frigidis imbe­
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              cilles, ſucci plenæ: at quæ natura calidæ ſunt
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              proceræ, amplæque: frigidæ, paruæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006105">Quamvis
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              quædam natura etiam frigidæ, vt cicuta, lo­
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              co humido, vmbroſoque melius proueniant,
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              viribus etiam efficaciora. </s>
              <s id="s.006106">Talem enim elige­
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              bant Chij, cuius cortice iam detracto ſuc­
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              cum aquæ miſtum damnatis propinabant,
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              ad mortem abſque vllo dolore accerſen­
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              dam, Theophraſti teſtimonio. </s>
              <s id="s.006107">Imitabantur
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              enim mortem quæ in extremo ſenio contin­
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              git. </s>
              <s id="s.006108">Nanque dolor qui in morte ſentitur,
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              contingit aut ob ſpirandi difficultate, aut ob
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              ſpiritus vitalis reſolutionem. </s>
              <s id="s.006109">At ſpiritus cùm
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              ſpontè diſſoluuntur, dolorem nullum affe­
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              runt, velut in laboribus. </s>
              <s id="s.006110">Sed cauſa quæ ſpiri­
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              tum diſſoluit, vt febris, vulnus, plerunque
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              ipſa dolorem affert. </s>
              <s id="s.006111">Cicutæ igitur ſuccus ſtu­
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              porem grauem inducens, frigiditate immo­
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              dica ſpiritus ipſos abſque dolore extinguit:
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              difficultatem verò ſpirandi non maiorem
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              ea, quæ ſpirituum paucitati ſatisfaciat. </s>
              <s id="s.006112">Quò
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              fit vt non acerba mors accidat, velut his qui
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              aqua ſuffocantur, multò verò minus quàm
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              ſtrangulatis. </s>
              <s id="s.006113">Itaque mors hæc quæ ex cicutæ </s>
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