Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              eſt, & vt à calore putreſcat. </s>
              <s id="s.006978">Sicca igitur aut
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              omninò frigida, aut pinguiſſima putreſcere
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              non poſſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006979">Siccantur autem trifariàm om­
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              nia vel, calore viuaci, hic autem triplex,
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              ignis, fumus, & Sol: vel abrodente humi­
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              dum, vt vento, vel ſale: vel ſenſim ſiccan­
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              te, vt aloë, atque myrrha. </s>
              <s id="s.006980">Refrigeratis au­
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              tem putredo non contingit, ob id gelu mul­
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              ta non putreſcunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006981">Et piſces apud Sarmatas
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              ſeruantur recentes, in quinque menſes. </s>
              <s id="s.006982">Et
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              anguillæ vento ſiccatæ, ſi crudæ edantur,
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              ſuaues ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006983">Sed & corpora mortuorum ar­
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              gento viuo obruta ſeruantur: ſic tamen, vt
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              & intùs penetret metallicum. </s>
              <s id="s.006984">Seruantur au­
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              tem humido pingui quæcunque parum pu­
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              tredini obnoxia ſunt, vt farcimina, ſalitæ­
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              que carnes oleo, & piſces aſſati, ſeu potius
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              frixi: quanquam hic modus etiam ad com­
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              poſitos reduci mereatur. </s>
              <s id="s.006985">Quædam verò mi­
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              ſta cauſa, vt quæ vel melle, quod pingue
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              ſit, & ſiccet, vt fructus plerique: vel aceto
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              quod ſiccet ſimul atque refrigeret. </s>
              <s id="s.006986">Quam­
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              uis igitur putredo ad incendium via ſit, non
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              tamen quæ putreſcunt, quia humidum ad­
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              huc habent aqueum, verum quæ ex putre­
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              dine relinquuntur, ardent. </s>
              <s id="s.006987">Sed fungi: vt tu­
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              bera non ardent, quia putredo pingui, &
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              aqueo miſta genita, non à putredine reli­
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              cta ſunt.
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              Modi præ­
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              ſeruandi à
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              putredine.</s>
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              Lauri, & iu­
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              niperifolia
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              igne conce­
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              pto cur cre­
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              pitent.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.006990">At lauri folia, quæ à quadam putredine
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              relinquuntur, & ſicca ſunt, celerrimè ar­
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              dent: iuniperi quoque, ſed ob vehementem
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              ſiccitatem. </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.006991">Sed quia concipiunt ignem celeriter an­
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              tequam aqueum humidum vel eiiciatur, vel
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              ſiccetur, crepitum neceſſariò emittunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006992">Ob
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              id igitur lauri folia, & iuniperi, dum ardent,
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              valde crepitant. </s>
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              <s id="s.006993">Sed ſunt qui ardentibus lauri foliis diui­
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              nationem ineſſe putant, ſeu quòd arbos ipſa
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              ſacra ſit Apollini, ſeu quòd hæc flamma in
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              varias formas diducatur: ſiue quòd natura
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              aliquid contineat, mentem mouens.
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              De iuniperi
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              ligno.</s>
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              <s id="s.006995">Fuerunt qui exiſtimauerint truncum li­
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              gni iuniperi accenſum, & proprio cinere
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              contectum, ignem annuum ſeruare. </s>
              <s id="s.006996">Tamdiu,
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              certè mirum: at diu, nihil mirum, ſubſtan­
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              tia enim denſa & pingui admodum eſt, &
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              ad opera incorruptibili, niſi quod noſtris in
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              regionibus haud multum creſcit: & vbi creſ­
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              cit, cedrus dicitur.
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              Cedrus iuni­
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              peri ſpecies.
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              <s id="s.006998">Vernix.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.006999">Sola enim fructus rubedine cedrus à iuni­
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              pero differt ac magnitudine. </s>
              <s id="s.007000">Iuniperi lachry­
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              ma vernix vocatur: ne diffluat atramentum
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              ſuper chartam commodè ſpargitur: quia
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              enim ſicca, & tenuis, combibit liquorem ac
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              ſiſtit. </s>
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              <s id="s.007001">Pumex quamuis ſiccus, non combibit:
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              quia craſſum, & ſine calore. </s>
              <s id="s.007002">Quinimò ſi ſolo
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              pollicis vngue, chartam comprimas iam de­
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              raſam, minus ſpargetur atramentum, quàm
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              ſi pollinem pumicis addas. </s>
              <s id="s.007003">Ob id igitur è
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              ſicca vernice, & lini oleo, fit liquida vernix
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              ad omnes cœli impetus coërcendos aptiſſi­
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              ma: vnde picturis addi ſolet. </s>
              <s id="s.007004">Olim loco eius
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              cera tenuiſſima, vel oui albo, ac ſandice
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              factitio, vel creta, cum nitro vtebantur. </s>
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              <s id="s.007005">Cera aduerſus Solis calores, ventoſque
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              ac ſalſi imbris, tum vaporum iniuriam, pi­
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              cturæ defendebantur. </s>
              <s id="s.007006">Oui albo, & ſandice,
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              etiam calor purpureus præter tutelam adde­
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              batur. </s>
              <s id="s.007007">Sed creta, ac nitro, ſplendor iucundiſ­
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              ſimus. </s>
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              <s id="s.007008">Apelles verò atramento tenuiſſimo ( ſic
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              enim ab vſu, non à calore, vocabatur li­
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              quor ille) præter id, quod picturas à pulue­
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              re ac ſordibus, iniuriiſque cæteris tueretur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007009">claritatem magnam addebat eis, etiam re­
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              percuſſo lumine. </s>
              <s id="s.007010">Quæ omnia, vernix noſtra
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              ætate, commoda etiam præſtat. </s>
              <s id="s.007011">Probatur
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              autem pura, quæ colores non vitiet, perſpi­
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              cua, tenuiſſima, ſplendida, adeò vt colores
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              illuminet, non obtundat. </s>
              <s id="s.007012">lumen verò ipſum
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              repercutiat: & ſolida ac firma, ſicut aquę vdo,
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              ſalſugini, ventis, pulueri, Solíque incorru­
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              pta maneat, & æterna. </s>
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              <s id="s.007013">Sed vt ad plantarum hiſtoriam redeam,
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              quæri ſolet, cur quibuſdam folia criſpa, aliis
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              etiam capitata, vt caulibus? </s>
              <s id="s.007014">Cauſa eſt, hu­
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              midum terreum abundans. </s>
              <s id="s.007015">Nerui enim
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              quia terrei, ſeriùs creſcunt: at folij ſub­
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              ſtantia, humidior: quum quod ineſt, ob
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              denſitatem non facilè reſoluatur, ſinuatur,
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              neceſſarioque criſpatur. </s>
              <s id="s.007016">Quæ igitur criſpa
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              habent folia, talia ſunt: vt lactuca, inula,
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              lapathum. </s>
              <s id="s.007017">Quæ autem extenſa, vel tenui vel
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              pauco humido prædita ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007018">Capitata verò
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              criſpa valdè, vel lenta magis, propterea non
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              ſeparantur, ſed in eodem, & iuxta idem ex­
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              tenſa coëunt. </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.007019">Abſoluiſſe iam plantarum hiſtoriam ſcio
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              ſed quoniam attamenti rubri atque puni­
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              nci compoſitionem docui, cæterorum etiam
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              adiiciam. </s>
              <s id="s.007020">Cœruleum, à cœrulea terra, vel
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              lapide Cyaneo, tum aureum è purpurina,
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              vel auro: reliquique omnes è metallicis co­
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              lores, vtriuſque ad vnguem modis, quibus
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              rubrum è cinnabari ſuprà miſceri docuimus,
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              perficiuntur. </s>
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              Atramenti
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              ſcriptorij
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              aurei, & cœ­
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              rulei ratio.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.007022">At nigrum quod commune eſt, ſic fit:
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              Gallæ confractæ recentis libram vnam: la­
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              chrymæ Arabicæ, baccarum liguſtri ma­
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              turarum, ſingulorum libræ dimidium: octo
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              diebus in ſex libris aquæ macerentur: pòſt
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              coquantur, donec aquæ pars tertia dece­
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              dat: feruenti, amotóque ab igne addantur
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              calchanti tenuiſſimè triti libram vnam,
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              miſceanturque omnia, donec frigeſcat: &
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              poſt dies decem, linteo denſiore coletur ac
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              ſeruetur. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Atramentũ">Atramentum</expan>
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              nigrum ſcri­
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              ptorium con­
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              ficiendi ra­
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              tio.</s>
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              <s id="s.007024">Antiquo tempore pro ſcribendis libris
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              fuligo balneorum & fornacum in vſu erat.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007025">Et nunc typhographi fuligine olei lini cum
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              ipſo oleo vtuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.007026">Scio qui fecerit optimum
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              quod tamen poſt ſex menſes ex toto euaneſ­
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              cere è chartis magna fraude. </s>
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              Literæ quæ
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              ſponte eua­
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              neſcunt.</s>
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              <s id="s.007028">Quærenda igitur ratio huius. </s>
              <s id="s.007029">Scimus quo­
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              niam terrea manent, humida non manent:
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              & quæ tenuia ſunt, euaneſcunt celerri­
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              mè
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              :
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              vnde aqua ardens ſtatim diffugit. </s>
              <s id="s.007030">Cal­
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              chantem igitur in ſpiritum redactum, & hu­
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              midæ, tenacique materiæ miſtum, hoc effi­
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              cere poteſt. </s>
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              <s id="s.007031">Vnde quæ pro magno miraculo referun­
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              tur de Apollonio Tyanæo, quòd bis accuſa­
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              tus chartam ſynceram ac puram accuſator
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              inuenerit, ſeu Imperator, ſeu Tigillinus: ſi
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              modò vera ſunt hæc inter tot Philoſtrati </s>
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