Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663
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              Palmæ de­
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              cem vſus.</s>
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              Palmæ for­
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              ma.</s>
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              Arborum
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              quæ tranſ-
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              feruntur
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              differentiæ
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              quatuor.</s>
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              <s id="s.006492">Melius igitur eſt cum Platone, ſenſum
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              quendam ineſſe plantis exiſtimare.
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              Palmites
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              qui eduntur,
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              ſeu Chiphil­
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              tum.</s>
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              <s id="s.006494">Palmites eundem guſtum referunt: ea­
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              demque ſubſtantia carnea, candida, ſolida,
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              ſed illorum pars ima, quæ radici iungitur,
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              manditur ſolùm: ſurculi, qui palmæ folia
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              referunt, candidi & ipſi, ſed lignoſi, non
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              apti cibo. </s>
              <s id="s.006495">Sapor idem qui palmæ ſummo
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              caudici, ideoque cum ſale, pipere oleo edi
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              ſolet. </s>
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              <s id="s.006496">Differunt tamen plurimùm à palma Pal­
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              mites: quemadmodum enim Palma procera
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              eſt arbor, & dactylos ferens, ſic illi race­
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              mos: inſtar vuarum, edunt: cætera palmæ
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              ſimilia. </s>
              <s id="s.006497">Verùm, hoc vno illa præſtantior,
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              quòd Venerem mirum in modum, ac vehe­
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              mentiùs omnibus aliis philtris, excitat. </s>
              <s id="s.006498">Nam
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              plurimùm excrementi in concoctione ter­
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              tia, plurimumque flatus gignit, & mul­
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              tùm ſtimulat, & diu manet in ventri­
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              culo.
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              Bdelium.</s>
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              <s id="s.006500">Sicilia hoc ſuffrutice abundat, è quo etiam
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              Bdelium excipitur, ſed ſubnigrum & mi­
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              nus efficax: vim tamen habet iucundi odo­
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              ris. </s>
              <s id="s.006501">Optimum adeò olim in precio erat, vt
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              Moſes plantam hanc in Geneſi inter præci­
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              puas, auro illam iungens, collocarit: ſeu
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              lachrymæ excellentia ſolùm, ſed etiam vſu
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              plantæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006502">Viſum eſt profectò illi, vt planta
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              hæc tam egregia, & è cuius fructu thy­
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              miama elegans effunderetur, iuxta hortum
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              deliciarum collocaretur. </s>
              <s id="s.006503">Sed videtur, Mo­
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              ſes aliud genus plantæ intellexiſſe, atque
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              regionem Bactrianam: ſiquidem ibi Bde­
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              lium ex arbore, non è frutice naſcitur. </s>
              <s id="s.006504">Hæc
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              oleæ magnitudine, nigraque folio, roboris
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              eſt, ac fructu caprifici: ex hoc inquam po­
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              tius quàm ex palmite naſcitur Bdelium.
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              <s id="s.006505">Nam quod à Moſe laudatur, ſingularis fra­
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              grantiæ erat: noſtrum hoc malè olet, ne­
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              dum vt inter thymiamata poſſit numerari.
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              Aloës hepati
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              ca cur pin­
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              guibus fo­
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              liis.</s>
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              <s id="s.006507">Cæterùm, vt palmites aridis ſurculis ſunt,
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              ita nonnullæ aliæ herbæ pinguibus admo­
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              dum foliis, vt aloës & ſemperuiuum, &
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              arbor Indica folio admodum grandi, non
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              tamen adeò pingui vt aloës, ſed ſpinoſa in
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              dorſo, quod mirum eſt, paruis tamen ſpinis.
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              <s id="s.006508">Ergo vt pingues humoris multum conti­
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              nent ſic aculeata olera, vt ſunt carduorum
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              genera omnia, vrinam prouocant, quòd
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              igneum humidum in eis neceſſariò abun­
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              det. </s>
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              <s id="s.006509">Sed cur aloës cùm amariſſima ſit, folia ha­
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              beat pinguiſſima? </s>
              <s id="s.006510">nam ſemperuiuo ſimilli­
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              ma, ſed nigricanti, & cubiti magnitudine, vt
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              ſæpe vidi. </s>
              <s id="s.006511">Cauſa eſt, quòd cúm & ipſa
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              aculeata ſit in extremitate foliorum, neceſ­
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              ſe eſt, vt in tam copioſo humido calor abun­
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              det ac ſiccitas, quæ ſpinas efficere poſſit:
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              quamobrem cùm parum prodeant compa­
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              ratione magnitudinis foliorum, exuſtum
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              oportet eſſe humidum quod intus eſt, ſuc­
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              cumque reddi amariſſimum.
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              Ligni ſancti
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              deſcriptio.</s>
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              <s id="s.006513">Sed ad arbores reuertor, raras maximè, è
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              quibus eſt lignum ſanctum vocatum, quod
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              ex Indiæ occidentalis inſulis aduehitur, vn­
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              de morbus etiam irrepſit. </s>
              <s id="s.006514">Et quamvis de
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              morbi illius natura libros octo ediderimus,
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              formam tamen hic arboris deſcribere pro­
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              poſui. </s>
              <s id="s.006515">Naſcitur in Hiſpania, circumque ia­
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              centibus inſulis noui orbis, iuglandæ pau­
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              lò minor, cortice maculoſo alternantibus
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              viridi, ac cinereo, folio arbuti minore, ac
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              viridiore. </s>
              <s id="s.006516">Flos candidus, croceus fructus,
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              forma cuius ac magnitudo duobus iunctis
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              lupinis ſimilis eſt: arbor adeò frequens, vt
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              luci paſſim, vt apud nos quercea nemora
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              videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.006517">Extrahimus ex hoc non ſolùm,
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              ſed etiam quocunque alio ligno lachrymam,
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              quæ pretioſior eſt ipſo ligno, hoc modo
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              Secatur lignum in fruſta digiti craſſitudine,
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              exponunturque igni, inde colligitur quic­
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              quid ineſt lachrymæ in ligno. </s>
              <s id="s.006518">Eſt autem
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              lachrymæ genus duplex, liquidum atque ſic­
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              cum: & rurſus crudum, vt ceraſi ac pruni:
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              & pingue, vt tædarum omnium: ardet enim
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              Cur autem hæ ardeant, illæ non, dictum eſt
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              priùs. </s>
              <s id="s.006519">Sed cur hæ liqueſcant, aliæ rema­
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              neant ſiccæ, nondum dictum. </s>
              <s id="s.006520">Liqueſcunt
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              quæ parum continent terrei: nam lateres,
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              quia plurimum habent terræ, non liqueſ­
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              cunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006521">Igitur concocta magis tædarum la­
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              chryma, & maturando aptior: non ta­
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              men calidior, nam Euphorbij calidiſſi­
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              ma, quamvis è lactis genere, non tædarum
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              lachryma. </s>
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              Modus la­
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              chrymam e
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              quocunque
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              ligno extra­
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              hendi.
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              <s id="s.006523">Lachryma­
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              ram arbo­
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              rearum ge­
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              nera.</s>
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              <s id="s.006524">Eſt autem Euphorbium ſpinoſæ plantæ
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              lac, ſed non exquiſitè candidum, tempore
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              tamen quia ſiccatur, vt lentiſci lachryma,
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              & dentes flaueſcit: quòd etiam ſignum ve­
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              tuſtatis. </s>
              <s id="s.006525">Simile quiddam habet cum barbara
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              radice dum colligitur, acris enim ſuccus,
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              tum quia lac, vt dictum eſt, omne planta­
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              rum, aut ex putredine, aut ex frigiditate, vel
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              ſiccitate. </s>
              <s id="s.006526">Verùm cùm non exquiſitè ſit can­
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              didus hic ſuccus, ſed ſubcroceus, non à fri­
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              giditate ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.006527">Declarabimus autem inferiùs
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              omnem plantam aculeatam eſſe immodicè
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              ſiccam: ſicciſſimum igitur Euphorbium. </s>
              <s id="s.006528">Eſt
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              verò calidiſſimum, atque ob id ſuper impoſi­
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              tum nudis oſſibus vna die, ea deſquamare
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              ſolet, tanta eſt ill ius vis. </s>
              <s id="s.006529">Eadem ratione &
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              lac tithymalorum dentes frangit. </s>
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              Euphorbium</s>
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              <s id="s.006531">Sed dices: Cùm quatuor ſint tantùm
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              humida in miſtis, lachryma ad quódnam
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              genus reducetur? </s>
              <s id="s.006532">Eſt autem lachryma in
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              arboribus, quòd mucoſus ſuccus in herbis:
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              nam hic in plantis vix eſt, rara quoque
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              in herbis lachryma. </s>
              <s id="s.006533">Mucoſus ſuccus im­
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              perfectus eſt ad olei pinguedinem compa­
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              ratus: lachryma verò pingue humidum
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              aqueo miſtum ac terreo. </s>
              <s id="s.006534">In omni igitur
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              lachryma oleum, ideoque facilè extrahi­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.006535">Siccæ autem lachrymæ, qualis ſtyrax
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              & pix Græca, naualiſque. </s>
              <s id="s.006536">Excipiuntur hæ
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              ex fruſtis pini in fornacem coniectis, dum
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              diutiùs ardent: diftillat enim pix, quam
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              vocant naualem, nigra lucidaque, con­
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              ſumit oleum, & ab illo eluitur? </s>
              <s id="s.006537">lachry­
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              mæ enim ab oleo, oleum à furfure de­
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              tergitur. </s>
              <s id="s.006538">Picata igitur vaſa oleum ſi im­
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              ponatur abſumunt, ob ſiccitatem cum
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              tenuitate iunctam. </s>
              <s id="s.006539">Quia verò omne gum­
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              mi pingue eſt, atque ex aquea ſubſtan­
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              tia, perſpicuum eſt etiam omne, & vbi
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              abundat. </s>
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              Pix cur o­
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              leum abſu­
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              mal</s>
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              <s id="s.006541">Vndæ larigneæ tabulæ tenues, ſi ex his ta­
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              bernacula
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              , impoſitis luminibus exteriùs </s>
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