Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              coitu, vt de animali illo admirabili iam
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              dictum eſt: vel regione: nam ( vt dixi)
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              tauris Germanicis longa barba prominet,
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              maiuſque eſt corpus, Pæoniis hirſutum, Li­
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              bycis quos Lant vocant lingua materna
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              ſua, corpus candidum, vngues nigri, ſeu
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              potius vngulæ corio impenetrabili, atque
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              ob id, & ob pulchritudinem precioſo. </s>
              <s id="s.008296">Eſt
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              autem hoc animal velox ob conſuetudi­
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              nem, pabulumque. </s>
              <s id="s.008297">Variantur etiam regio­
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              nibus ſerpentum colores. </s>
              <s id="s.008298">In Æthiophia
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              enim, & Libya viperæ nigræ ſunt, velut
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              & homines, quod etiam Pauſanias teſtatur.
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              <s id="s.008299">Nam cùm pilo careant, aduritur cutis, vt ho­
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              minum ab immodico calore, quare non eſt
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              maior ratio de hominibus quòd nigri ſint,
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              his in regionibus, quàm de viperis. </s>
              <s id="s.008300">Va­
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              riantur etiam ætate, vt mures, qui caneſ­
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              cunt ſenio. </s>
              <s id="s.008301">Et non ſolùm animalia ipſa,
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              ſed ex ipſis genita ſenectutis extremæ veſti­
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              gia oſtendunt: vtin equis, & hominibus,
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              quorum facies cùm ex decrepitis parentibus
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              nati ſunt, rugoſa eſt: vis enim cordis vbi
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              hebetata eſt, contrahit cutim, atque hoc
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              eſt indicium iam debilium membrorum
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              principalium. </s>
              <s id="s.008302">Illud verò ſæpe nos animad­
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              uertimus. </s>
              <s id="s.008303">Itaque primum mutationis prin­
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              cipium eſt ex miſtione diuerſarum ſpecie­
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              rum, ſecundum ex regionibus, tertium ex æ­
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              tate, & generatione à parentibus nimis
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              iuuenibus, aut ſenio confectis. </s>
              <s id="s.008304">Maxima
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              verò mutatio in regionibus ad Auſtrum, vel
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              Boream tendentibus, inde ab Oriente in Oc­
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              cidentem, pòſt in paludibus, aut ſiccis lo­
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              cis, vltimò montium, ac planitiei diuerſi­
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              tate. </s>
              <s id="s.008305">Libya verò multa monſtra mittit, non
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              ſolùm ob calorem immenſum, & ſiccitatem,
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              ſed ob aquarum penuriam, qua animalia di­
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              uerſi generis miſcentur: vt tauri quidam,
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              quos Rhinocerotes eſſe diximus: alij etiam
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              gibbo inſignes, vt cameli, quorum meminit
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              hîc poëta. </s>
              <s id="s.008306">De alce ſuperiùs dictum eſt, &
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              quòd rarò viſa ſit: cuius rei cauſam Pauſa­
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              nias docet, dicens: Hominem procul odo­
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              ratur, & cùm præſenſerit, in conualles &
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              profundiſſimas ſpeluncas ſe abſcondit: nec
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              illam venari, ob id licet ſolam, ſed caſu,
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              cùm venatores ſpatium mille ſtadiorum
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              alias feras quærentes circumdederint. </s>
              <s id="s.008307">Me­
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              diam ille eſſe refert inter ceruum & ca­
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              melum, quòd forſan gibbam habent in dor­
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              ſo. </s>
              <s id="s.008308">Aut hæc alia eſt ab ea quam Cæſar deſ­
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              cripſit. </s>
              <s id="s.008309">Manticora autem non habet certum
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              autorem, ſed poëticæ adiectam exiſtimo.
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              <s id="s.008310">Cteſias, quem Plinius ſequitur, eam deſcri­
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              bit, cuius etiam autoritate Ariſtoteles me­
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              minit, illi non ſatis fidens. </s>
              <s id="s.008311">Sed non viſam
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              tot luſtris Romanorum, nec à Pauſania, mi­
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              rum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.008312">Indiæ illam tribuunt. </s>
              <s id="s.008313">Sed ( vt dixi)
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              Libya in eodem tractu eſt, & Æthiopia, in
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              quibus tigrides, vt apud nos lupi, abundant.
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              <s id="s.008314">Maculoſa pelle creditur eſſe tigris. </s>
              <s id="s.008315">Nos duas
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              vidimus Florentiæ, quas tigres eſſe dice­
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              bant, cùm pardis eſſent ſimiles.
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              Equi mari­
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              ni.</s>
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              Tauri pæonij</s>
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              Vri.</s>
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              Muflo.</s>
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              Lant.</s>
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              Viperæ Li­
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              bycæ.</s>
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              Quomodo
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              cognoſcun­
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              tur filij de­
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              crepitorum.</s>
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              Leo.</s>
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              <s id="s.008324">Naſcitur & Leo eiſdem in locis, fermè
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              animalium quadrupedum audaciſſimum, cu­
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              ius oſſa ignem colliſa creduntur excutere:
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              ſunt enim duriſſima & ſolida, ac quaſi abſ­
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              que medulla, longo corpore, colore fuluo,
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              acri intuitu, longa cauda quam quatit per­
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              ſæpe, pilus non rectus anterius, ſed mollis, ac
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              flexus: corio prorſus impenetrabili: breuior
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              parte poſtrema, capite magno, rictu oris am­
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              plo: tanto ceruicis ac dentium robore, vt
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              camelum ore arreptum ferat: tanta fortitu­
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              dine, imò audacia potiùs, vt ſolus ducentos
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              aggrediatur equites: vnguibus maximis, ac
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              duriſſimis armatus, rugitus aſper. </s>
              <s id="s.008325">Iracun­
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              dum genuit, quia fortiſſimum: atque ob
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              naturam tam calidam, alternis diebus la­
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              borat morbo, quibus iacet proſtratus &
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              rugit, non totis diebus, ſed ſtatutis horis: nec
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              omnes forſan, ſed qui captiui detinentur. </s>
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              <s id="s.008326">Sed etiam animalia pellibus nobiliora,
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              vt lynces, & è muſtelarum genere plurimæ,
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              martes varij, lardironi, viuerræ, piroli, her­
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              meli, ginetæ. </s>
              <s id="s.008327">Has Hiſpania mittit, forma
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              & moribus domeſticis muſtelis, quas nos fo­
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              dinos vocamus, ſimiles, pelle varia, ac ni­
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              gris & cinereis alternantibus maculis di­
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              ſtincta. </s>
              <s id="s.008328">Sed Zebellinæ, alias ſabellæ, om­
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              nium longè precioſiores pulchritudine, ac
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              raritate. </s>
              <s id="s.008329">Has mittunt ſub extremis Septen­
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              trionibus Lapones, Soli expoſitæ, pluri­
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              mùm depilantur, quòd hæc animalia in
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              vmbra, & vbi Solis vis debilis admodum
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              eſt, degant. </s>
              <s id="s.008330">Creduntur veneris deſiderium
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              mulieribus augere. </s>
              <s id="s.008331">Hæ etiam mardurorum
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              pellibus nobiliores ſunt, molliore & denſio­
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              re pilo, quique vtrinque conuerſus ordi­
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              nem retineat. </s>
              <s id="s.008332">Vtrumque animal vngulis, &
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              dentibus acutiſſimis, præcipuè ſabellæ:
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                que</expan>
              cauda piloſa, ac veluti ſciuro vtitur,
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              tanquam velo, vt ex arbore in arborem ſal­
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              tu ſe transferat. </s>
              <s id="s.008333">Abundant autem maximè
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              prope polum, vſque ad tredecim partes,
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              quòd regio illa inhoſpita ſit, & frequens hu­
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              milibus ſyluis. </s>
              <s id="s.008334">Pelles quoque ibi pulchrio­
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              res & meliores, nec verò numerus horum
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              generibus, ſi ad pellium colores varios reſ­
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              picias, & ad llorum naturam moreſque,
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              tanta eſt copia muſtelarum. </s>
              <s id="s.008335">Pelles colli diu­
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              turniores plerunque, vt in vulpem
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              ,
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              ſardirolo: nam partem eam cute ſolidiore, ob
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              periculum natura muniuit, inde factum eſt,
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              vt pili diutius contineantur. </s>
              <s id="s.008336">Negauerat A­
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              riſtoteles, animalibus iucundos ineſſe odo­
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              res, adeoque conſtanter, vt pantheram
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              benè olere tantùm quibuſdam animalibus
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              affitmet, non autem verè, neque ab hoc
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              diſſentit Theophraſtus. </s>
              <s id="s.008337">Sed ſtercus anima­
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              lium: quoniam multum & humidum erat
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              impedire odoris ſuauitatem poteſt, in plan­
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              tis nominata cùm ſit modicum, & ſiccum,
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              atque concoctum. </s>
              <s id="s.008338">Quamobrem animali­
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              bus, quibus ſtercus benè olet, modicum eſſe
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              oportet, & ſiccum, vt lacertis magnis, de
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              quibus ſuprà diximus, quos etiam croco­
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              dilos vocauimus, & anguibus. </s>
              <s id="s.008339">Igitur vt na­
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              tura nihil intactum relinquet, ſtuduit dili­
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              genter, vt odoratum animal efficeret, neque
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              vnum, ſed diuerſa ratione. </s>
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              Muſtella­
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              rum genere.</s>
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              Sabellæ pel­
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              les.</s>
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              Pelles colli
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              cur diutur­
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              niores.</s>
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              13. Proble­
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              <s id="s.008344">40. Lib.
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              <s id="s.008345">6. de planta­
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              rum cauſis.
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              <s id="s.008346">Cur anima­
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              lia pauca
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              iucundi odo­
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              ris.</s>
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              <s id="s.008347">Zibethum igitur finxit feli perſimilem,
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              ſed maiorem: animal quod Hiſpania mittit
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              dentibus armatum, etiam ferum valde, quòd
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              nulla temporis longitudine miteſcat. </s>
              <s id="s.008348">Pilo
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              aſperiere, ore
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              , vt meli animali: in hu­
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              ius tam maſculi, quàm fœminæ genitali­
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              bus folliculum genuit, è quo ſemen ar­
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              genteo cochleari excipitur: adeò odoris </s>
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