Casati, Paolo, De igne dissertationes physicae, 1686

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            vt abſque vehementi eruptione Sulphurearum particularum ad
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            ſummum non niſi extima ſuperſicies ignem breuem concipiat.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7349" xml:space="preserve">Idem quoquè affirmarem de Iucundo illo Megalopolitanorum
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            igne innoxiè ardente ſub denſi nemoris fronde. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7350" xml:space="preserve">Ne verò in Sa-
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            pientiſſimi Philoſophi mentem nimis facilè credulitatem irrepſiſ-
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            ſe dicam, cum ignem calidiſſimum, nec tamen adurentem in Pi-
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            thecuſis dignum eſſe cenſuit, qui literis conſignaretur, fortaſſe
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            exigne illo acerrimi ſpiritus prodibant, qui citiſſimè ac vehemen-
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            ter ferirent tangentis neruos, adeoque moleſtiſſimum caloris ſen-
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            ſum excitarent, nimiâ tamen velocitate præteruolarent materiam,
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            quamuis ad conflagrandum facilem, ſedeam vix lamberent, non pe-
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            netrarent, quemadmodum de Ætnæâ flammâ, quæ ſcit niuibus ſer-
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            uare fidem, Poëta cecinit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7352" xml:space="preserve">Dand. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7353" xml:space="preserve">Poëticè profectò: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7354" xml:space="preserve">ſicuti de nauigantibus dicitur, *T ur-*
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            *reſque vrbeſque recedunt,* ita de Ætnæâ flammâ canitur, *Lam-*
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            *bit contiguas innoxia flamma pruinas:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7355" xml:space="preserve">* ijs videlicet, qui procul
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            montis verticem ſpectant, erumpens ex cratere, cuius amplitu-
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            dinem non vident, flammam ſui imaginem oculo imprimit proxi-
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            mam imagini niuis, qua extimus crateris margo conueſtitur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7356" xml:space="preserve">pro-
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            pterea flamma procul aſpectanti oculo apparet niui proxima: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7357" xml:space="preserve">cœ-
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            terùm ex intimis Ætnæ viſceribus erumpens flamma abeſt à niue
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            tanto interuallo, quanta ferè eſt crateris ſemidiameter: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7358" xml:space="preserve">adeoque
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            non miror, ſi flamma à niue diſtans centenos aliquot paſſus, ſur-
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            ſumque aſcendens, niuem ad latus poſitam intactam relinquat;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s7359" xml:space="preserve">quis enim hoſtem abſentem, nec ad ſe venientem, ſed aliorſum
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            magnis itineribus progredientem reformidet? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7360" xml:space="preserve">Ego verò (pace tua
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            dixerim, Gradonice) non adeò benignum interpretem me exhi-
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            beo Ariſtoteli; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7361" xml:space="preserve">cum enim Pithecuſæ non ſint à nobis admodum
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            remotæ, ſed in Sinu Puteolano, quam inſulam Ænariam, Ho-
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            mero Inarimen, hodie Iſchiam, ab oppido coxendicis formam
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            referente vocant, nullum tam mirandi in Naturâ prodigij ve-
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            ſtigium retinere nouimus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7362" xml:space="preserve">Quapropter ſuſpicor ab aliquo fictilia
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            dolia (quæ Pithecuſis nomen dederunt) indè in Græciam adue-
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            hente fabulam exiſſe, atque in vulgus emanâſſe tam conſtanti
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            famâ, cui non putârit Philoſophus operæ pretium reluctari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7363" xml:space="preserve">Quo-
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            niam autem vt plurimum, ſicuti tritici grana in Lolium vitio de-
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            prauati nutrimeuti degenerant, ita veritas aliqua commentis fu-
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            cata tranſit in fabulam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7364" xml:space="preserve">idcirco contingere potuit aduenam </s>
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