Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              edunt abſque diſcrimine ſimiles buffonibus,
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              & ſola ſpecie horribiles, & ob ſimilitudi­
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              nem etiam periculoſas: adeò vſus in omnibus
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              plurimùm poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007347">Sed tamen nihil mirum
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              e locuſtis panem fieri: ſiccæ enim in farinam
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              commodè tranſeunt, & leuem habent ſub­
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              ſtantiam, & pinguæ continent humidum:
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              hoc enim declaratum eſt commune eſſe om­
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              nibus animalibus: igitur ſi molantur, pin­
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              ſentúrque ac decoquantur, panem optimum
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              efficere poterunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007348">Optimum dico, non ſim­
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              pliciter, ſed illis regionibus, hominibúſque
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              agreſtibus ac feris, quibus nihil boni eſt.
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              Seruatur enim humidum pingue, ſiccato à
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              ſole aqueo: nec mirum, nam eſt humidi ge­
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              nus, quod etiam ab igne
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              eſt, nec ardet:
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              aliter calchantum exuſtum oleum non mit­
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              teret, mittit tamen, quia humidum id ſub­
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              ſtantiæ coniunctum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007349">Cùm enim later
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              ferreus ardet, ſi prorſus humidum eius totum
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              arderet, extinctum non eſſe ferrum, ſed ci­
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              nis. </s>
              <s id="s.007350">Eſt igitur olei genus quoddam, & pin­
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              gue humidum, quod non facilè ardet. </s>
              <s id="s.007351">Tale
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              autem metallicorum ſolidorum, vt ferri, au­
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              ri, calchanthi, argenti viui.
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              Locuſtæ, &
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              earum
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              Locuſte cibi
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              loco ſunt
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              Afris.</s>
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              Humidum
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              pingue
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                dam</expan>
              , quod non
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              ardet.</s>
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              Locuſtæ, for­
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              micæ, papi­
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              liones cur
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              oua gignant,
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              non tamen
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              apes.</s>
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              <s id="s.007356">Verùm cur hæc
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              (
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              etiamſi quædam mino­
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              ra ſint apibus) formicæ ſcilicet, papiliones,
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              locuſtæ oua gignunt, apes non poſſunt? </s>
              <s id="s.007357">Cau­
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              ſa eſt, quòd cùm pariunt, non volant, ſed for­
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              mam retinent erucæ, aureliæve, aut cum
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              his commoriuntur, vt bombyces ac locuſtæ:
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              nam oua in tam paruis animalibus volatui
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              impedimento erant: igitur cùm apes præ­
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              ſtaret ob egregiam vtilitatem viuaces eſſe,
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              in ſeptimum enim aut etiam octauum an­
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              num earum vita producitur, oua parere im­
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              poſſibile fuit. </s>
              <s id="s.007358">Necſolùm tam minuta, ſed
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              & maiora animalia è putredine, imò omnia
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              credendum eſt originem ducere, cùm iam
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              de muribus conſtet, & prſces in aquis re­
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              centibus ſpontè generentur. </s>
              <s id="s.007359">Cum enim (vt
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              dixi) putredo præceſſerit, pingue ſeparatur à
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              cinere, calórque confeſtim animam infun­
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              dit illi materiæ aptam. </s>
              <s id="s.007360">Vnde fit vt animalia
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              omnia, quæ è putri generantur materia, vt
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              blattæ, vermes,
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              dolores vbique natos ſi
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              quid aliud finiant: ſunt enim è calidiſſima,
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              humidiſſimáque materia. </s>
              <s id="s.007361">Ob id canthari­
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              des ſi id non faciunt, nihil mirum, ex ouis
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              enim generantur. </s>
              <s id="s.007362">Attamen & ipſis vires
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              aliæ pro his adſunt: menſura enim mediocri
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              tentiginem, & erectionem veretri faciunt
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              maximam: maiore excoriant veſicam, & ſan­
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              guinis mictum faciunt: maiore adhuc inſa­
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              nos reddunt. </s>
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              Animalia
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              omnia è pu­
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              tri materia
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              genita cur
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              finiant dolo­
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              res.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007364">Cantharida­
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              rum varia
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              vis.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007365">Cicendulæ.</s>
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              <s id="s.007366">Eadem ratione Cicendulæ, lampytis
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              apud Græcos, quas Italia mittit muſcarum
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              magnitudine, exiliores tantò, quantò lon­
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              giores, æſtiuis noctibus volantes ac mican­
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              tes, pedes habentes ſenos, alas duriores muſ­
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              cis, è crabronum enim genere ſunt, viſcera
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              candidiſſima, exteriore cute polita, adeóque
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              dum viuit ſplendente: vt in tenebris literas
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              nonnunquam velut candela ardente adiutus
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              legerem, ex eruca in crabrones, aut quod
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              vero ſimilius eſt, è crabronibus in erucas
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              tranſeunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007367">Quandoquidem eruca maior eſt
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              crabrone, minúſque lucet, velut tunc ſenio
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              conſecta: túncque verò ſimile eſt, oua, non
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              cum volat, parere.
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              <s id="s.007368">Docet nos animantium genus hoc, li­
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              quorum fieri poſſe, qui reluceat in tenebris:
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              fit autem putreſcentibus his, quæ cando­
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              rem, lucem ac perſpicuitatem ſummam ha­
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              bent. </s>
              <s id="s.007369">Fieri poſſe non dubito: è quibus &
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              quomodo, adhuc mihi incertum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007370">Ratio
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              à pulmone marino tamen ſumenda eſt: hic
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              enim lignis illitus facit vt nocte ſplendeant
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              facum inſtar. </s>
              <s id="s.007371">Cauſa igitur humidum pin­
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              gue, quod nitere facit, & vis luminis in eo
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              contenta. </s>
              <s id="s.007372">Quæ enim nitent, & non diu ab
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              actione caloris cœleſtis receſſerunt, nocte
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              ſplendent. </s>
              <s id="s.007373">Talium igitur ratio hæc erit.
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              <s id="s.007374">Vnde quercus cortices, & quæcunque hu­
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              midum pingue, & ſolidum putredine acqui­
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              runt nocte ipſa velut ignis putrefacta lu­
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              cent. </s>
              <s id="s.007375">Non ſecus ac marcida ligna, & aga­
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              ricus: candida enim ſunt vehementer &
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              ſicca. </s>
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              Aqua quæ
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              in tenebris
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              ſplendorem
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              afferat.
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              <s id="s.007377">Pulmo mari­
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              nus nocte
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              ſplendens.</s>
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              <s id="s.007378">Cicendula maius miraculum præſtat Co­
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              coyum: animal hoc mittit Hiſpana noui or­
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              bis inſula, è ſcarabeorum genere haud obſ­
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              curè: magnitudo qualis ſcarabeis noſtris,
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              quos ceruiuos à ceruorum longitudine vo­
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              camus. </s>
              <s id="s.007379">Volat non minus quàm
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              , lu­
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              cetque corpore, ſed oculis multò magis,
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              adeò vt candelam referat, ſunt enim præ­
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              grandes pro corporis magnitudine atque
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              prominentes: legitur, ſcribitur, Indi quo­
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              que eo ſolo lumine conuiuia agere ſolebant,
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              adeò magnam, & claram lucem in ſe con­
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              tinent, nec in hoc maius miraculum licet,
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              vel inuenire, vel deſiderare. </s>
              <s id="s.007380">Extinguitur ſen­
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              ſim illorum marceſcente vita, vt cum illa
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              etiam lumen pereat totum, adeò vis hæc vi­
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              tali animæ coniungitur: remanet tamen li­
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              quor ille qui reſplendebat in oculis ac ven­
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              tre: quo peruncti, ſeu quòd luminis aliquid
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              adhuc retineat, ſeu quòd calore ſuo cutem
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              accendat, cutem ipſam velut prunam reddit
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              adeò rubicundam ac ſplendidam.
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              Cocoyum.</s>
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              Pyrauſta in
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              igne viuens.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007383">Vermes pi­
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              loſi in niue.</s>
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              <s id="s.007384">Mirabilis eſt & generatio pyrauſtæ, vt
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              lumen cicendulæ: nam pyrauſtam inter ignes
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              Cypri, qui ſunt in fornacibus viuere, retulit
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              Ariſtoteles: vt etiam de vermibus rubris,
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              piloſiſque in niuibus prodidit. </s>
              <s id="s.007385">Pyrauſtam in
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              igne generari, vel alibi genitam in illis du­
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              cere vitam, quod veriſimilius eſt, & credere
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              oportet, quoniam ignis nihil poteſt gene­
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              rare. </s>
              <s id="s.007386">Ex recrementis igitur in imo ignis, &
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              niuium generantur: vtque vermes ſunt ca­
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              lidiſſimi, & ob id frigoris tanti patientes,
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              ita pyrauſta frigidiſſima. </s>
              <s id="s.007387">E putredine igitur
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              humidi ſolidiſſimi metallorum generatur
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              pyrauſta, in ignis vicina parte, vt non cor­
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              rumpatur humidum ab igne, nec procul na­
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              ta cum adulta fuerit ignis ſit impatiens. </s>
              <s id="s.007388">Eo­
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              dem quoque modo in niue vermes gene­
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              rantur, collectis vaporibus quibuſdam cali­
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              dis, qui à frigore concluſi putrefaciunt, re­
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              liquum humidi ſecum coacti. </s>
              <s id="s.007389">Atque eo mo­
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              do fit talium generatio, qui quum in ſum­
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              mo frigore geniti ſint, in eodem quoque
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              ſeruari nihil mirum, quum tamen nullum
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              frigus aliquid generet. </s>
              <s id="s.007390">Nece enim magis in
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              ſummo frigore quicquam poteſt generari,
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              vt viuis aut glaciei, quàm in igne. </s>
              <s id="s.007391">A tempe­
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              rato igitur calore cuncta generari neceſſe eſt:
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              ſed non omnibus idem eſt temperamentum.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007392">Referunt autem in Armeniæ montibus præ-</s>
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