Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              grandes naſci, quos teredines vocant, hi ſub
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              niuibus geniti, aquam ſuauiſſimam contine­
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              re feruntur: vnde qui eos capiunt, tunica
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              rupta bibunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007393">Similiter & in media niue
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              glebas eſſe concauas membranam continen­
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              tes, in qua aqua potui iucunda latet. </s>
              <s id="s.007394">Horum
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              authores Apollonides, & Theophanes, apud
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              Strabonem.
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              Ephemerum.</s>
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              <s id="s.007396">Notiſſima quoque apud Ciceronem Ephe­
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              meri hiſtoria, quod animal quaternis pedi­
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              bus, totidem alis naſcitur apud Hippanin
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              Boſphori fluuium: vitam à mane ad veſpe­
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              ram, vnde illi inditum nomen eſt, ducens.
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              <s id="s.007397">Manè puer, meridie iuuenis, ſenex veſperi,
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              occidente ſole commoritur: vt multò plus
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              laboris ac temporis ad generationem, quàm
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              ad vitæ vſum natura impendiſſe videatur.
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              <s id="s.007398">Demirari itaque tantam conditricis ſolici­
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              tudinem licet, & in tam breuis vitæ animali
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              tot inſtrumenta, tot facultates. </s>
              <s id="s.007399">Videt, audit,
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              volat, ambulat.
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              Culex.</s>
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              <s id="s.007401">Culicem armauit in noſtram iniuriam:
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              animal exiguum & frequens, adeò vt vix
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              iuxta aquas commodè liceat habitare. </s>
              <s id="s.007402">Ro­
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              buſta promuſcidæ, vt natura elephantem
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              meditari, dum hoc generat animal videa­
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              tur: terebrat non humanam tantùm carnem,
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              ſed & equorum pellem, hauriens ſanguinem
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              acri dolore, denique bombo egregio ſomnos
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              diſturbat æſtiuis noctibus, vt nihil ſit odio­
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              ſius. </s>
              <s id="s.007403">Nec obiter ferit, vt muſcæ, quæ paſſim
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              omnes impetunt, ſed deligit, quos feriat,
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              nam ſolùm ſanguine dulci gaudet. </s>
              <s id="s.007404">Inuiſa
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              eſt muſca, ſed reticulis è filo arcetur: timet
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              enim alas implicare, atque id experimento
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              ſatis conſtat. </s>
              <s id="s.007405">Quæ ratio etiam in culicibus
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              arcendis obſeruanda erit. </s>
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              Muſcæ omnes
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              feriunt, culi­
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              ces non.</s>
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              Calices, &
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              muſcas quo­
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              modo prohi­
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              beamus.
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              <s id="s.007408">Formicarum
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              genera mira
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              Scorpij alati.</s>
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              <s id="s.007409">Formicularum genus & ipſum cùm ſeneſ­
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              cit alatum efficitur. </s>
              <s id="s.007410">Neque mirum, cùm &
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              in Phrygia ſcorpiones alas habeant. </s>
              <s id="s.007411">Et nos
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              quandoque magno timore à ſcorpio alato
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              tacti ſumus, non tamen pupugit, neque mali
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              quicquam paſſi ſumus. </s>
              <s id="s.007412">Fuit autem hoc in
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              Patauino agro iuxta oppidum Saccenſe, an­
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              no ni fallor 1527. Itaque multa talia & bom­
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              byces (vt dixi) cum formicis ſeneſcentes alas
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              mittunt: conſolatur enim illorum imbecilli­
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              tatem natura volatu addito. </s>
              <s id="s.007413">Sed ab editis alis
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              parum ſuperuiuunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007414">Ouidius magis admi­
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              rabilem de ipſis transformationem narrat,
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              dicens:
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              Concaua littoreo, ſi demas brachia cancro,
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              Cætera ſupponas terræ, de parte ſepulta
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              Scorpius exibit, caudáque minabitur vnca.
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              <s id="s.007415">Videtur autem formicarum genus natura
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              non neglexiſſe, tunc ob hanc mutationem,
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              tum ob vitæ longitudinem, tum ob tot illa­
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              rum diuerſa genera, & politiam etiam, quam
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              ſeruant. </s>
              <s id="s.007416">Vt verò apes regnum, ita formi­
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              cæ popularem ſtatum cuſtodiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007417">Creſcunt
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              quædam admodum in calidis regionibus,
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              adeò vt Raſis referat, in Suſide inclyta
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              vrbe Perſidis regionis, fuiſſe nutritam for­
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              micam publicè, ſiquidem in foro Auiano,
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              quæ ſingulis diebus libram carnis ederet.
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              <s id="s.007418">Aliæ verò in Iſthmo Sur & Nort occiden­
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              talis Indiæ caſulas adeò duras efficiunt
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              apum ſimilitudine, vt vix ſecuribus tandem
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              rumpi queant, atque ſic arboribus perni­
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              ciem afferunt. </s>
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              <s id="s.007419">Inter plantarum genera, quæ alis carent,
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              frumentaceæ præſtant, quæ ſi inter furfures
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              nutriantur, mirum dictu in quantam excreſ­
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              cant multitudinem: vt ex decem in trecen­
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              tas, paucorum dierum interuallo. </s>
              <s id="s.007420">Aluntur ad
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              nutriendos melanocephalos, philomenáſque
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              nec eſt illis hyeme cibus ſalubrior, tonſori­
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              bus pleriſque hanc curam habentibus: pur­
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              gant enim & calefaciunt animalia tenui vi­
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              tæ fomite prædita. </s>
              <s id="s.007421">Mutantur verò blattarum
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              quarundam genera non ſecùs ac bombyces
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              magno naturæ miraculo: neque enim has
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              neglexiſſe videtur tam multiplici metamor­
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              phoſi. </s>
              <s id="s.007422">Atque inter reliquas genus eſt eruca­
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              rum, quod dum in aurelias tranſit, formam
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              æmulatur infantis faſciis inuoluti facie qui­
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              dem humana propè cum mitra, & cornibus,
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              aliæ quidem aureo, aliæ argenteo colore, vt
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              nihil mirum ſit, ſi aliquid in illis ſit egregij,
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              quod nos lateat. </s>
              <s id="s.007423">Seu forſan hoc fortuitum
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              ſit: ſed in tota ſpecie fortuitum eſſe non po­
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              teſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007424">Eſt autem ſpecies quidem earum, quæ ex
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              ouis generantur perpetua ſucceſſione, vel ex
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              putredine tantùm. </s>
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              Blatta. </s>
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              Erucarum
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              quarundam
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              mirabilis
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              forma.</s>
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              <s id="s.007427">Animalium minimaetiam ex hoc genere
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              ſunt cognitorum Ariſtoteli, Acaris qui in
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              cera naſcitur: nunc India occidentalis no­
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              uum aliud genus mittit Garapatem, contri­
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              to ſale tenuius. </s>
              <s id="s.007428">Sed & è pulicum genere Ni­
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              guam, peſtem quandam atrocem. </s>
              <s id="s.007429">Minus eſt
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              multò pulice hoc animal, quòd hærens ho­
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              mini adeò lancinat, dum nec videre poteſt,
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              nec præhendi, vt pedes quibuſdam, aliis
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              etiam manus excîdant. </s>
              <s id="s.007430">Inuentum auxi­
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              lium, ſi locus oleo perungatur, nouaculáque
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              radatur. </s>
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              Aceris mini­
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              mum anima­
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              lium.
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              <s id="s.007432">Garapates.
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              <s id="s.007433">Nigua.</s>
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              <s id="s.007434">Non contemnenda prorſus harum pe­
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              ſtium noxa eſt, quippe quantò minora ſunt
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              hæc animalia, eò ſunt frequentiora, & ma­
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              gis tædioſa. </s>
              <s id="s.007435">Vnde Myuſcij olim Achaiæ po­
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              puli, cùm iuxta mare habitarent, eorúmque
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              regio illius aſſiduo æſtu repurgaretur, in­
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              fluens Mæander arenam congeſſit, conclu­
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              ſitque paludem: inde copia tanta culicum
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              emerſit, vt oppidum deſerere coacti ſint.
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              <s id="s.007436">Nam talia (vt diximus) multitudine, tædió­
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              que ac fœditate omnia inficiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007437">Sed culices
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              præter reliqua etiam infeſtum addunt bom­
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              bum, & truculenter feriunt, adeò vt iuxta
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              paludes & ſtagna (nam his gaudent culices)
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              moleſtum ſit admodum die, moleſtiſſimum
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              verò noctu habitare. </s>
              <s id="s.007438">Quamobrem veteres
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              multa aduerſus has infœlicitates ſcripsêre
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              auxilia. </s>
              <s id="s.007439">Sed vna primum ratio generalis à
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              tactu, alia ab odore, tertia à guſtu ſumenda
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007440">A viſu quidem generalis eſſe nequit, ne­
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              que ab auditu, quòd hi ſenſus in his ſint val­
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              de imbecilles. </s>
              <s id="s.007441">Cùm enim (vt dictum eſt) ſen­
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              ſus omnes his ſint imbecilles, ob generatio­
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              nis tempus breue, & etiam ob corporis pra­
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              uitatem, viſus tamen & auditus, quoniam
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              minus ad vitam neceſſarij ſunt, vt infrà do­
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              cebimus, ſunt in his omninò hebetes, adeò
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              vt prudentiſſima animalium, & maximè po­
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              litica, ſcilicet apes & formicæ, quemadmo­
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              dum nuper dictum eſt, vno ſenſu ex his ex to­
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              to priuentur: apes auditn, quòd volantes viſu
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