Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              geſtandis maximè idoneus. </s>
              <s id="s.008856">Ex equo quoque
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              & aſina, aut equa, & aſino, muli generan­
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              tur, qui plus ferendo poſſunt, quàm ponde­
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              rent. </s>
              <s id="s.008857">Iidem greſſu firmiſſimo procedunt.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.008858">Equis etiam manſuetudo maxima atque do­
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              cilitas, quibus in duobus à nullo ſuperantur
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              animali. </s>
              <s id="s.008859">Duriſſimam quoque præter id vn­
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              gulam habent, ac omnis iniuriæ expertem,
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              excipientémque ſoleas, clauóſque ferreos, in
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              híſque camelum longè antecellit. </s>
              <s id="s.008860">Idem cur­
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              ſu atque perenni reliqua ſuperat animalia:
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              & licet equus vnus ab vno camelo vincatur
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              dierum ſpatio, plures tamen equi diſpoſiti in
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              ſtationibus totidem camelos ſuperant. </s>
              <s id="s.008861">Nam
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              camelus vbi fatigatus eſt, parum remittit, ac
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              integer & validus equum æquare curren­
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              tem, vel etiam velitantem non poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.008862">Pluri­
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              bus igitur numeris equus nobilitate alia
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              vincit animalia. </s>
              <s id="s.008863">Idem ad pugnam ardens, &
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              gloriæ cupidus, & tubæ ſonitu accenditur,
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              & fræna intelligit, vt non homo magis ho­
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              minis vocem. </s>
              <s id="s.008864">Vigilat hic fermè ſemper,
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              nec recumbit, niſi laſſus, aut piger: & vili
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              ſumptu alitur, fœno palea, herba, furfure,
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              auena. </s>
              <s id="s.008865">Videtúrque hic ſolus ad omnia hu­
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              mana commoda natus: onera fert, vehit,
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              currit, ſaltat, pugnat. </s>
              <s id="s.008866">Probatur in vigintiſe­
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              ptem conditionibus: è nouem animalibus
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              ſumptis, tribus ſcilicet ex vnoquoque. </s>
              <s id="s.008867">Mu­
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              lieris ætas iuuenilis, quæ in equis à quarto
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              anno ad octauum extenditur, aut decimum:
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              manſuetudo & morum comitas, vt non mor­
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              deat, non calcitret, non ſe aquis mergat, non
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              ſit obſtinatus, & inobediens, ſinat ſe ab om­
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              nibus tractari ac duci: pulchritudo, quæ vt
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              in mulieribus in facie & pectoris latitudine,
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              & membrorum concinnitate conſtat. </s>
              <s id="s.008868">Aqui­
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              læ, vt oculo maximè vigeat, paruum habeat
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              caput, & illud erectum teneat: Anſerini
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              pulli, aut roſamachæ, vt ſit vorax, celeriter
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              comedens, & nihil aſpernetur. </s>
              <s id="s.008869">Ilia tumida
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              non contracta habeat, & pedibus diſtanti­
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              bus incedat. </s>
              <s id="s.008870">Leonis, vt ſit animoſus & for­
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              tis, vt ſit parte anteriore elatus non ſinuatus
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              in medio, nec altior parte poſtrema, vt ſit
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              totus oſſeus, ac robuſtus: hæc enim leonis
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              ſunt propria. </s>
              <s id="s.008871">Cerui, vt ſit curſor, ſaltator, &
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              leuis. </s>
              <s id="s.008872">Aſini, vt vngulas habeat duras, corium
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              durum, & dorſum robuſtum. </s>
              <s id="s.008873">Fugies enim
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              equum qui cùm aſcendis, flectitur, & pon­
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              deri cedit. </s>
              <s id="s.008874">Vulpis, vt caudam habeat pul­
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              chram: non ſolùm enim ad decorem facit,
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              ſed roboris ſignum eſt, quòd ex vertebris
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              dorſi oriatur, & vt facilè in quamlibet par­
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              tem vertatur: nullum enim animal in hoc
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              agilitatis genere vulpi æquari poteſt, &
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              quòd pellis pulchritudine præſtet. </s>
              <s id="s.008875">Bouis, vt
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              pedem habeat magnum, ac crura moderatè
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              craſſa: neque enim exilia, bona eſſe poſſunt:
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              vt breuium iuncturarum & firmarum, vt
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              ſecurus incedat: bos enim nunquam ceſpi­
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              tat: Equi propria ſunt velociter, ac ſuauiter
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              incedere, alacrem eſſe, & vt fræno, ac calca­
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              ribus parere ſciat: Commune autem omni­
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              bus atque per ſe manifeſtum eſt, vt ſanus:
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              ſanitatis etiam pars eſt atque optimum ſi­
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              gnum, quòd in laboribus vix ſudet. </s>
              <s id="s.008876">Alacritas
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              dignoſcitur quòd hinniat, nec quieſcere
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              ſciat, & ſi cogatur, fræna mandat, & pedem
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              concutiat. </s>
              <s id="s.008877">Vnde Poëta tuus dicit:
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              Stat ſonipes & fræna ferox ſpumantia mandit.
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              Equi boni
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              conditiones.</s>
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              <s id="s.008879">Memorantur duo fuiſſe egregij equi in
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              hiſtoriis, alter Alexandri Magni, cui nomen
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              Bucephalus, ſeu quòd magno eſſet capite, ſeu
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              eleganti,
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              enim vox apud Græcos vtrun­
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              que ſignificat: cui mortuo in India cum Poro
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              rege pugnanti, ciuitatem Bucephalam equi
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              nomine condidit: tantum rex maximus, vel
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              illius meritis tribuit, vel quantum in equo
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              Principi repoſitum ſit, intelligere ſe oſten­
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              dit. </s>
              <s id="s.008880">Alter vnguibus humanis, qui C. </s>
              <s id="s.008881">Iulij Cæ­
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              ſaris cum eſſet, orbis imperium illi porten­
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              dit. </s>
              <s id="s.008882">Neque tamen vngulas cum digitis ha­
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              buiſſe credendum eſt, nam ſeſſorem ferre ne­
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              quiuiſſet: ſed vt de elephante dictum eſt,
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              diſcrimina in vngula abſque diuiſione ſub
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              digitorum imagine fuerunt. </s>
              <s id="s.008883">Bucephalus ne­
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              minem admittebat tergo, præter vnum Ale­
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              xandrum, non tam ferocitate quàm ambi­
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              tione, quæ illi equo inerat: vnde ambitioſiſ­
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              ſimo Regi chariſſimus fuit. </s>
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              Bucephalus
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              Alexandri
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              Magni
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              equus.</s>
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              Equus C.
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              <s id="s.008886">Cæſaris Di­
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              ctatoris.</s>
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              <s id="s.008887">Cùm igitur equus offertur primum illius
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              caput, quod paruum eſſe debet, inſpicito, at­
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              que decorum, erectum, oculis viuacibus at­
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              que vitio omni carentibus, auribus paruis,
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              rectíſque, collo breui, amplo, coma decora,
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              pectore lato, parte anteriore ſublimore pa­
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              rum, tergo rectè rigente, in quo nulla ſint
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              cicatricum veſtigia, latiore ſpina, iliis ro­
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              tundis, lumbis plenis, cauda pulchra, cruri­
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              bus rectis, miniméque dum incedit, aut intus
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              ſe collidentibus, aut extrà deflexis, iuncturis
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              firmis breuibúſque, pede lato & vngula craſ­
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              ſiore. </s>
              <s id="s.008888">Inde inſpice dentes, vt ætatem agnoſ­
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              cas, & guttur comprime: nam ſi anhelitu
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              ſit haud integro, moleſtè feret. </s>
              <s id="s.008889">Trahe poſt­
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              modum caudam, ſi cedit, eſt imbecillis: inde
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              iuncturas ſingulas, maximè iuxta pedes,
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              comprime, & paululum inuerte: ſi dolet
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              quieſcere non vult, & morbum patitur anti­
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              quum. </s>
              <s id="s.008890">Colorem etiam conſidera, optimus
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              enim eſt qui ſplendet: quoniam generoſio­
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              rem & bene curatum equum ſignificat. </s>
              <s id="s.008891">Inter
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              cæteros præſtat muſtelinus obſcurus, quem
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              materna lingua baium vocant. </s>
              <s id="s.008892">Pòſt aſcende,
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              & videbis ſi ſeſſorem refugiat, ſi ſinuetur
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              dorſum: hæc enim male valde. </s>
              <s id="s.008893">Inde circum­
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              uerte ad vtranque partem, intelligéſque an
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              verſatilis. </s>
              <s id="s.008894">Fac vt eat, agnoſces ſuauitatem
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              greſſus, & celeritatem,
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              eundi. </s>
              <s id="s.008895">Expe­
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              riare
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              : cùm retinetur quàm pareat fræ­
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              no & habenis: currendo,
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              calcaribus:
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              ſimul etiam intelliges quàm ſit leuis, quàm
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              velox: quàm tutus,
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              ſpiritu graui, aut
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              facili. </s>
              <s id="s.008896">Deinde ad aquas deducito, agnoſces
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              an ſe vltrò in aquam iactet. </s>
              <s id="s.008897">Permitte bibere,
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              ſi totas nares præteros mergit, maximè poſt
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              curſum, ſanus eſt pectore atque ſpiritu. </s>
              <s id="s.008898">Illum
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              etiam iuxta rotas quæ circumuertuntur de­
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              ducito: ſi ægrè accedit, pauidus eſt: ſi accede­
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              re non vult, omninò obſtinatus. </s>
              <s id="s.008899">Hunc mater­
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              na lingua reſtium vocant. </s>
              <s id="s.008900">Inde offer cibum, ſi
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              alacriter edit, bonum: ſi ſegniter, vel iners eſt
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              vel guloſus. </s>
              <s id="s.008901">Interim oblata auena ſi calcitro­
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              ſus eſt, aut mordax, tunc maximè dignoſci­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.008902">Abſumpta auena ſi recumbit ſegnis eſt,
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              nec ad labores promptus: generoſus enim
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              equus, niſi magno ex labore non decum­
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              bit. </s>
              <s id="s.008903">Dum verò inſtructus eſt fræno, habenis, </s>
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