Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              etiam ſimul generantur, & eadem die oriun­
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              tur, teſte Hippocrate. </s>
              <s id="s.009374">Itaque partis ad par­
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              tem in motu Solis ratio conſtat in vteri ge­
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              ſtatione, cùm dierum numerus idem ſit, ne­
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              que enim alio diei menſura definiri poteſt,
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              quàm motu Solis in eadem parte: vel quia
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              natura humana, non vltra diem ferre poteſt
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              irritata priore partu. </s>
              <s id="s.009375">Immenſum me æquor
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              ingredi iam ſentio, de abditis naturæ hu­
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              manæ differentiis dicturus, maſculorum ac
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              fœminarum, ſenum ac iuuenum, tum gen­
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              tium, atque partium. </s>
              <s id="s.009376">Siquidem adeò ex his
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              quædam diſtare videntur, vt non vnius ge­
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              neris eſſe credantur. </s>
              <s id="s.009377">Numidarum enim ple­
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              rique nunquam manus, aut faciem lauarunt,
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              à potúque abſtinent aquæ: gladium non
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              habent, ſed contenti ſunt camelarum lacte,
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              & iure carnium, adeò ſordido conuictu,
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              vt nihil à belluis diſtare credas. </s>
              <s id="s.009378">Quid rudes
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              hos & agreſtes, cùm lautiſſimis Cambaiæ
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              populis, ac ingeniſiſſimis conferes? </s>
              <s id="s.009379">Senes
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              his delectantur, quæ paria ſunt ipſis cum
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              iuuenibus, vt ludo aleæ: non enim vinci
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              ſtudio iuuenum æquo animo patiuntur: ob
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              id ſenes mentis exercitationem magis
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              amant, iuuenes corporis, in cæteris ſtu­
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              dia ex toto diuerſa, imò contraria. </s>
              <s id="s.009380">Senes,
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              auari, mœſti, ac timidi ſunt: iuuenes verò
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              prodigi, alacres, & audaces. </s>
              <s id="s.009381">Videntur igi­
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              tur ſtudia ætatum diuerſarum non minus
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              eſſe inuicem contraria, quàm animalium di­
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              uerſæ ſpeciei. </s>
              <s id="s.009382">Equidem humana natura, vt
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              & aliàs dictum eſt, vniuerſam rerum om­
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              nium molem videtur amplecti: & in illius
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              ſtructura multa, ac magna latent. </s>
              <s id="s.009383">Nam ſan­
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              guis menſtruus ex quo coagmentatur, vim
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              magnam habet. </s>
              <s id="s.009384">Siquidem mulier dum eo
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              laborat, ſpecula chalybea ſpiritu inficit ru­
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              bigine, & ſata per quæ vadit, lædit. </s>
              <s id="s.009385">Sed &
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              balneum primogeniti filij, vbi illius ſangui­
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              nis ſunt reliquiæ, vt experimento vidi, le­
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              proſos mundat. </s>
              <s id="s.009386">Cauſa à ſympathia, mea
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              ſententia quærenda eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.009387">Corruptior enim
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              ſanguis per arterias, & venas ingreſſus,
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              corruptum attrahit. </s>
              <s id="s.009388">Eſt autem ſanguis qui à
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              partu effunditur, & potentia qualis noſter,
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              & corruptior, & viribus adhuc partus, ac
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              pueri calidior: quocirca vehementer vrget,
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              & purgat, & extinguit, velut radij Solis
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              ignis flammam obruunt, & euaneſcere co­
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              gunt.
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              Modus pro­
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              creandi filios
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              maſculos.</s>
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              Lib.4.c.183.
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              Lib.25 c.5.</s>
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              Numidarum
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              mores agre­
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              fies.</s>
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              Senes quibus
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              ſtudiis ma­
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              ximè gau­
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              deant.</s>
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              Menſtrui
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                guinis</expan>
              vires</s>
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              Lepræ cura.</s>
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              Filij omnes
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              patrium, aut
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              auitum ali­
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              quid
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              retinent.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.009396">Spurij cur ro­
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              buſtiores.</s>
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              <s id="s.009397">Sed vt ad rem reuertar, oſtendiſſe me ſcio
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              in ſecundo contradicentium medicorum,
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              omnes filios patrium aliquid, aut auitum ad
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              vnguem retinere: dico autem verrucam,
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              vel cicatricem, vel effigiem, vel mores,
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              aut manuum lineas. </s>
              <s id="s.009398">Itaque ſi bene miſ­
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              ceantur hæc ſemina, & ad minimas partes
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              iungantur, robuſti fœtus euadunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009399">Quam­
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              obrem ſpurij robuſtiores ſunt, quoniam ob
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              amoris vehementiam ſemina multum miſ­
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              centur. </s>
              <s id="s.009400">Simili ratione & qui paucos gene­
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              rant, non enim conueniunt ſemina, in­
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              columiores, & validiores gignunt: quia
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              quæ non conueniebant, cum miſta ſunt, cau­
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              ſam validam miſtionis ſortita ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009401">Eadem
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              ratione muli longæui magis ſunt equis, &
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              aſinis, à quibus procreantur: nec quia à
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              coïtu abſtineant, nam & qui ex eis coëunt,
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              diu viuunt, & qui à coïtu abſtinent, equi
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              parum: relinquitur igitur quòd hoc ob va­
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              lidam miſtionem contingat: nam vbi vali­
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              da miſtio, ibi tenuitas ſubſtantiæ: & vbi te­
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              nuis ſubſtantia, ibi & ſolida. </s>
              <s id="s.009402">Cùm enim
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              diſſident, quæ miſceri debent, vt attenuen­
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              tur plurimo indigent motu, vnde tenuia &
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              ſolida euadunt. </s>
              <s id="s.009403">Hinc fit, vt duo homines
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              eadem temperie præditi, diuerſa ſpatia vitæ
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              attingant, eodem quamvis vtantur regimi­
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              ne, alter enim in iuuentute, alter valde ſenex
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              obibit. </s>
              <s id="s.009404">Nam longiſſimæ vitæ erit, ſi denſa
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              & ſubtili ſubſtantia conſtet: breuis, ſi ſubti­
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              li & rara: mediocris, ſi craſſa & rara: nam
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              denſa ( vt dixi
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              & craſſa conſtare non po­
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              teſt. </s>
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              Muli cur
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              longæui.</s>
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              Cur duo ho­
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              mines eadem
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              temperie, &
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              victu eodem
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              vtentes, di­
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              uerſa vitæ
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              ſpatia ſor­
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              tiantur.</s>
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              <s id="s.009407">Sunt qui ex dentium forma, vitæ tempo­
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              ra coniectantur. </s>
              <s id="s.009408">Sed tamen Auguſtus, qui
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              annis 76. vixit, dentes habuit raros, paruos
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              & ſcabros, vt oculos ſplendidos, ac vibran­
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              tes, quales & Alexandro Magno fuêre, vt
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              refert Adamantius Sophiſta. </s>
              <s id="s.009409">Facit & ad vi­
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              tæ longitudinem, atque robur, Veneris
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              paruus vſus: namque plurimùm in ea effun­
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              ditur ex arteriali illo ſanguine, atque puriſ­
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              ſimo ſpiritu, quòd his indigeat generatio,
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              propter quam Venus ipſa conſtituta eſt:
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              colliquat etiam corpora, & cerebrum offen­
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              dit, ac neruos, tremulóſque efficit, ſe­
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              nium accelerat & canos oculóſque præcipuè
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              debilitat. </s>
              <s id="s.009410">Sed quoniam de ſanguine arteria­
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              li mentio facta eſt, non ignorare decet du­
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              plices in nobis eſſe venas: alias quidem te­
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              nues, & immobiles in ipſa ſuperficie corpo­
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              ris, in quibus ſanguis tepidus ac ruber: alias
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              verò ſub his craſſas, & pulſantes, in qui­
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              bus ſanguis flauus, ac calidiſſimus contine­
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              tur, qui à corde prouenit, vt primi origo
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              eſt iecur. </s>
              <s id="s.009411">Pulſant venæ hæ craſſiores vnà
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              cum corde & æquis temporibus: hôcque
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              motu calor ipſe naturalis conſeruatur, &
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              quicquid fuliginoſum collectum fuerit eii­
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              citur. </s>
              <s id="s.009412">Dum enim dilatantur, refrigeran­
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              tur: dum conſtringuntur, fuligo eiicitur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.009413">Accendi verò ex motu ipſo calorem, indi­
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              cat pulſus vehemens & reſpirandi deſide­
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              rium, & incendium corporis, & ſudor ma­
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              nans poſt curſum. </s>
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              Auguſti for­
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              ma.</s>
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              Veneris dam-
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              na.</s>
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              Duo genera
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              in nobis ve­
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              narum &
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              ſanguinis.</s>
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              Pulſus &
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              motus cordis
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              vtilitas.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.009418">Cur curren­
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              tibus vena­
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              rum pulſus.</s>
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              <s id="s.009419">Sed vt ad reſpirationis commoda reuer­
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              tar: reſpirant animalia omnia manifeſtè, vel
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              occultè. </s>
              <s id="s.009420">In aëre quidem volucres, ſerpen­
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              tes, & quadrupeda: in aqua autem piſces
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              branchiis calorem ſuum moderantur. </s>
              <s id="s.009421">Indi­
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              cio eſt, quòd ad aërem tranſlata ſuffocan­
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              tur, vt animalia quadrupeda viciſſim in
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              aquis. </s>
              <s id="s.009422">Cancri autem & aqua, & aëre ad
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              reſpirationem vtuntur, & modicè vtroque.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.009423">Manifeſtè reſpirant muſcæ, culices, ac
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              bombyces. </s>
              <s id="s.009424">Tardigrada vix videas reſpirare,
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              cancrum, teſtudinem, limacem, ſcara­
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              beum, chamæleonta, ſalama ndram: cauſa eſt
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              in his, quod vbi motus frequens, ibi reſpira­
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              tio frequens eſt neceſſaria, tum magna: vbi
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              paruus, nec celer, nec magna. </s>
              <s id="s.009425">Ob id animalia
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              magna, quæ parùm & tardè reſpirant, breuis
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              vitæ ſunt, vt boues: parua enim reſpiratio,
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              parui coloris eſt indicium, qui magnam
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              molem diu regere nequit. </s>
              <s id="s.009426">Signum tamen
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              maximum vitæ longæuæ eſt, multùm ac tar­
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              dè creſcere. </s>
              <s id="s.009427">Huic proximum, parùm & tar­
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              dè. </s>
              <s id="s.009428">Sed ſi multùm & celeriter, hoc breuis </s>
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