Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663
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              inquit enim: Pamphyla Platis filia in Cô
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              inſula, prima docuit veſtes bombycinas te­
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              xere, ex filo quod à bombyce fit. </s>
              <s id="s.007304">Naſcitur
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              hoc animal verme ſui generis, quod cornua
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              habet, inde ex illo eruca, pòſt bombyx, inde
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              necydalus, ſpatio ſemeſtri, abſoluta tota hac
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              mutatione. </s>
              <s id="s.007305">Eſt autem papilioni ſimile, ſed
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              oua edit congreſſi maſculi fœminæque: nec
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              edit interim quicquam, ſed ouis editis ta­
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              beſcit. </s>
              <s id="s.007306">Nec volat niſi vt ſaltum videatur imi­
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              tari. </s>
              <s id="s.007307">Et autem mirum, quomodo eo cognito
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              olim ſericea veſtis tanto in pretio fuerit.
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              <s id="s.007308">Verùm quamuis Procopius narret, mona­
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              chos ex vrbe Indiæ Serinda Iuſtiniano Im­
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              peratori oua vermiculorum quorundam at­
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              tuliſſe, atque ita poſt Ariſtotelem annis fer­
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              mè 840 dicátque Virgil.
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              Ignoti facie, ſed noti vellere Seres.
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              <s id="s.007309"> Tum alibi:
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              ——
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              foliis depectunt vellere Seres.
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              <s id="s.007310">Et Plinius: Seres lanico ſyluarum nobiles
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              perfuſam aqua depectentes frondium cani­
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              tiem. </s>
              <s id="s.007311">Exiſtimo tamen, hoc noſtrum ſericum
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              illud eſſe, quod ab antiquis celebratur, Ari­
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              ſtoteli
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              (
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              vt dixi) cognitum, ſed in certa nu­
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              triendi ratione, intermortuo diſciplina, ſeu
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              quòd Pamphyla docuerit, delata ex India
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              fila, & iam victoria Alexandri Magni co­
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              gnita, non tamen tranſlatis vermibus, texe­
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              re. </s>
              <s id="s.007312">Inde primùm ſub Iuſtiniano, & oua, &
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              artem educandi per monachos ad nos per­
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              ueniſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.007313">Interim verò dum latuêre, perſua­
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              ſum eſt antiquis è frondium lanugine depe­
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              cti: ſiue quod hoc veriſimilius videretur, ſeu
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              quòd bombyces ibi ſpontè in ſyluis proue­
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              niant, ſeu quòd ſic incolæ occultare origi­
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              nem ſerici melius poſſe ſperarent. </s>
              <s id="s.007314">Verùm vt
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              Cæſaris huius ac materni aui aut beneficio
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              totus orbis innotuit, patuit apertè præter
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              hoc ſerici genus nullum aliud eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.007315">Vtiliſſimi
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              igitur poſt apes, bombyces. </s>
              <s id="s.007316">Aduehuntur ad
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              nos nunc animalia pro purpureo colore ſeri­
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              ci conficiendo, ſimilia cimicibus, à quibus
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              ſublata ſunt capita, vnde pretium ſerico ru­
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              benti imminutum fermè ad dimidium, cùm
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              olim è bibinellæ herbævermiculis radici ad­
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              naſcentibus fieret. </s>
              <s id="s.007317">Animalia eſſe & quæ de­
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              feruntur, & quæ ex bibinella colliguntur: in­
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              dicio eſt, pinguedo fœda in bibinellæ, etiam
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              vermiculis fœtida admodum. </s>
              <s id="s.007318">Eſt autem pin­
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              guis hæc materia, vt tenaciter hæreat, &
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              ſanguinea, vt viuidum colorem retineat:
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              nam & purpuræ color olim ex animali ſu­
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              mebantur. </s>
              <s id="s.007319">Cæterùm vermiculi è bibinella
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              in Germania oriuntur, miſcentúrque buty­
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              ro, ita tamen vt nihil præter putrem ſordem
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              percipere poſſis: ſed pingue pingui colorem
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              ſeruat, putreſcente ſubſtantia. </s>
              <s id="s.007320">Quatuor libræ
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              ex hac materia in ſingulas ſerici libras exi­
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              guntur: ex Indica vix ſelibra, quòd pura ſit,
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              & ſicca:
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              ideò minùs tenax hic colos,
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                núſque</expan>
              viuidus. </s>
              <s id="s.007321">Quòd ſi aliqua pingui materia
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              feruaretur, dubio ſine, nitidior color ac diu­
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              turnior redderetur, neceſſe eſt enim, vt cum
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              inutili humido vtilis aliquid euaneſcat. </s>
              <s id="s.007322">Ad­
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              di ſolent multa dum conficitur purpura hæc,
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              tam ſagax eſt hominum induſtria ad lucrum:
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              atque inter reliqua, Arſenicum, alumen, vini
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              ſex, galla mirobalani, zedoaria, ſpuma ſapo­
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              nis, & furfuris cremor. </s>
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              Tinctura
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              purpurea
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              noua pro ſe­
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              rico.</s>
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              <s id="s.007324">Aduerſus humanum genus contraria ra­
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              tione locuſtæ paratæ videntur: non paſſim
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              abundant, ſed Africa fermè ſola hac peſte,
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              & quod magis mirum eſt, alternis ferme an­
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              nis laborat. </s>
              <s id="s.007325">Cœlum pro oſtento, non ſecùs
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              ac denſa nubes obtegunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007326">Prouinciæ in quas
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              calamitas hæc deciderit, ſatis ac germine
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              omni vna nocte ſpoliantur: diceres enim ni­
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              uem decidiſſe nocte tota, ſi candidæ tam eſ­
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              ſent, quàm ſunt nigræ. </s>
              <s id="s.007327">Forma earum eſt, vt
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              locuſtarum Italicarum: ſed rubro obſcuro
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              colore, maiores paulò, & volandi facultate
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              præditæ. </s>
              <s id="s.007328">Sunt qui ventis illas ad nos ferri
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              ſupra mare, non ſpontè, ob multitudinem, &
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              regionis diſtantiam, exiſtiment. </s>
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              iuxta paludes, & cum in cultam. </s>
              <s id="s.007330">Africæ ter­
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              ram volant, non generant, vel parùm. </s>
              <s id="s.007331">Quæ
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              in paludibus relinquuntur, non poſſunt adeò
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              multiplicari, vt euolare ad pabulum neceſſe
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              ſit, ſed contentæ ſunt ſarmentis, algáque pa­
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              luſtri, ob id cùm frequentiſſimè, non niſi al­
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              ternis annis, plerunque etiam rariùs in pro
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              uinciam graſſantur. </s>
              <s id="s.007332">Quæ verò exeunt abſum­
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              ptis ſatis, cùm euolare cogantur quærendi
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              cibi gratia, tandem à ventis præcipitantur
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              in mare. </s>
              <s id="s.007333">Quandoque verò ventorum perſe­
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              uerantia, roboréque earum vſque ad aduer­
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              ſas Africæ regiones deferuntur: cuius mali
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              Sicilia primùm, pòſt Italia haud expers eſt.
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              <s id="s.007334">Anno 1543. vidimus in Italia: obieri in Tu­
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              ronenſi agro omine magis infauſto, quàm
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              iactura vlla: ſiquidem ea regio iam 15. pòſt
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              annis perpetuo bello deſolatur: cùm antea
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              ſeptem aliis laboraſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.007335">à prima hora, ad ſex­
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              tam tranſeuntes turmæ Solem perpetuò
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              obumbrarunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007336">Experimento compertum eſt,
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              curam ad oua delenda ignibus profuiſſe,
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              nam ſobole priuantur. </s>
              <s id="s.007337">Si tamen cura non
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              adhibeatur, hoc malum viſum eſt ſequenti
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              anno repullulare, non leui incommodo: nam
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              præter certam ſterilitatem, periculum etiam
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              peſtilentiæ afferunt, ac omen ad futurum
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              bellum. </s>
              <s id="s.007338">Quibuſdam tamen vtiles: adeò nihil
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              ex quaque parte aut beatum, aut integra­
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              tum. </s>
              <s id="s.007339">Arabes enim, & Libyæ populi ſiccatas
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              Sole redigunt in panes: recentes
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              edunt.
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              <s id="s.007340">Nec mirum, cùm Moſes in ſeligendis cibis
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              diligentiſſimus, locuſtas Hebræis, vt ſaluta­
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              res comedere permiſerit. </s>
              <s id="s.007341">Et Ioannes Bapti­
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              ſta illis cum agreſti melle in deſerto veſce­
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              batur. </s>
              <s id="s.007342">Naturæ autem rerum imperiti, igna­
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              ríque, de hoc admirantur, & multa perperam
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              fabulantur, ne vir ſolitarius locuſtas ederet
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              in deſerto: cùm Germani quidam milites
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              bombyces noſtros in ſerici ſpem nutritos, in
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              tanta etiam rerum copia deliciarum cauſa
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              frixos ederint, ídque iure: nam quæ innoxia
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              ſunt, & ſapore, & odore tetro carent, ſola opi­
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              nione conſtant. </s>
              <s id="s.007343">Itali enim muſtelas ſolo co­
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              lore à vermibus diſtinctas, cùm hæ nigræ
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              ſint, vermes rubri comedant, atque inter cu­
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              pedias ponunt, cùm tamen ex putredine,
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              non ex ouis, quemadmodum locuſtæ ac
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              bombyces, generentur. </s>
              <s id="s.007344">Simili ratione oſtrea,
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              conchyliáque tam auidè, vt etiam cruda de­
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              uoremus, quæ ex putredine procreari ſcimus.
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              <s id="s.007345">Nec tamen ſcio præter hæc tria, vllum ani­
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              mal quod ex ſola putri materia ortum ha­
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              beat, in vſu eſſe culinarum. </s>
              <s id="s.007346">Sed ranas cano­
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              ros piſces abominantur Germani, noſtri </s>
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