Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              nonne hoc eſt ſceleratorum omnium homi­
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              num exhibere ſe doctorem ac proceptorem?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013065">Eſtque eò veneficus latrone deterior, quò
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              difficilius eſt vitare clandeſtinas inſidias,
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              quàm manifeſtas. </s>
              <s id="s.013066">Quamobrem non ſolùm
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              docere aut experiri, ſed neque ſcire talia vo­
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              lui. </s>
              <s id="s.013067">Quando quidem maxima eſt ſeges vti­
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              lium, in quam te conferre poſſis, etiamſi
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              ſecula Cumeæ viuat. </s>
              <s id="s.013068">Neque tamen hæc
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              tam vtilitatis cauſa experiri malui, quàm
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              tentandi.
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            <p type="margin">
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              Veneficiorum
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              genera &
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              ſpecies.</s>
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              Zoroaſtes
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              venefi iorum
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              inuentor.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013071">Pionis cumu­
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              li mirum.</s>
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              Cineris ſpon­
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              tè ſe accen­
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              dentis
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              .</s>
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              Africo ven­
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              to ſiſtendo.</s>
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              Equus æneus
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              alij inire
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              geſtiebant.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Poma aurea
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              Marrochi
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              inuiolabilia.</s>
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              Vates admi­
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              rabiles.</s>
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              Serpentum
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              vulneribus
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              cura præſti­
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              gioſa.</s>
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              Cura prodi­
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              gioſa filij
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              Hieronymi
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              Legnani.</s>
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              Iumenta à
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              ſerpentibus
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              vulnerata
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              quomodo cu­
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              ra præſtigio­
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              ſa ſanentur.</s>
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              Quæ anima­
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              li ſenſu pro­
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              prio excu­
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              tiant.</s>
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              Veternum
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              quæ homini­
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              bus faciunt,
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              grauiter cur
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              oleant.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Pomum pro­
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              uocans ſom­
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              num.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013083">Opio caſſidi
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              certantis
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              equitis illito
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              eques extin­
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              ctus.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Veneficia
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              quæ docere
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              vtile eſt, &
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              quæ non.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Sagittis ex­
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              trahendis.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.013086">Sed ad rem redeo, atque vtilia exequor,
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              quorum obſcura ratio eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013087">Referunt ſquil­
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              lam piſcem impoſitum vulneri ſagittas
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              extrahere. </s>
              <s id="s.013088">Et leonis pinguedine perunctos,
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              quod mirum eſt, tutos eſſe à feris, cùm orem
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              illum ſeu viuentis, ſeu mortui expaueſcant.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013089">Hoc autem maximè cùm intrepidus obuiam
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              iueris: nam ſi fugam arripueris, vix odorem
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              percipient. </s>
              <s id="s.013090">Simili ratione ſuccum radiculæ
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              ſeu raphani, perunctis eo manibus diligen­
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              ter, facere vt tutus tractare poſſis ſerpentes
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              traditum eſt: vel enim timent mordere odo­
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              ris accredinem ſentientes, vel ipſo etiam
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              exanimantur. </s>
              <s id="s.013091">Nam muſtelæ & ſciuri allio
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              dentibus tentato in poſterum mordere vix
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              audent, cicuréſque hoc modo fiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013092">Illud in­
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              credibile, quòd calear pedis dextri galli vi­
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              ctores faciat: aut quòd ſanguis humanus in
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              80. diebus concreſcat in formam humanam
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              longè incredibilius, quod ea figura in farina
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              hordei ſepulta per nouem dies, inde iugu­
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              lata, ſanguinem qui ex ea fluit illitum faciei,
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              gratum reddere coram regibus, & cunctis
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              amabilem. </s>
              <s id="s.013093">Quid abſurdius? </s>
              <s id="s.013094">Inter mirabilia
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              non tam abſona reponitur, vt vinum non
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              peruertatur caniculæ tempore, quod contin­
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              git ex æſtu ac tomitruis, ſi vaſa ipſa vituli
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              marini pelle circumtegantur. </s>
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              Vt tutus ſis
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              è feris.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Serpentęs
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              quomedo
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              abſque peri­
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              culo
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                tur</expan>
              .
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              <s id="s.013097">Muſtelæ, &
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              ſciuri quo­
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              modo man­
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              ſueſcant.</s>
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              <s id="s.013098">Veneficia, media ſunt inter venena, &
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              præſtigias: his veriora, illis magis admiran­
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              da: priùs docenda auxilia, quàm ſcelera.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013099">Iuuat non credere, & ſalutaribus geminis
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              ſe munire. </s>
              <s id="s.013100">Oſtendunt odia principum non
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              eſſe vlla veneficia. </s>
              <s id="s.013101">Si qua ſunt, conſtant ci­
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              bis corruptis, veſtium coinquinatione, re­
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              trimentis, partibus humani corporis,
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                τασία. </foreign>
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              <s id="s.013102">Sed Hipomanes, vteruſque catulæ
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              philtra non ſunt: talibus impius Agrippa li­
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              brum quartum de Occulta Philoſophia, de
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              Veneficiisac venenis repleuit: qui de Scien­
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              tiarum vanitate ſcripſit, homo vaniſſimus.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013103">Qui quæ damnauit, prorſus neſciebat: quæ­
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              que neſciebat, ſcripſit: atque ea ſi vera fuiſ­
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              ſent, humano generi pernicioſa. </s>
              <s id="s.013104">Cæterùm
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              quæ eduntur, quæque tanguntur, irrita ſunt
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              ſed nec quæ imaginamur, abſque periculo.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013105">Velut ſi quis ſuſpicit quotidie medullas hu­
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              manas, ſi pingat retrò arantem mortem. </s>
              <s id="s.013106">Re­
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              liqua non nocent, niſi ex præcantantis pro­
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              prietate, & debilitate animæ illorum, ad­
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              uerſus quos hæ machinæ ſtruuntur: propte­
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              rea neque Principibus, nec fortibus viris,
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              nec ſapientibus talia nocent, ſed mulieribus
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              & infantibus, neque omnibus, ſed viliori­
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              bus. </s>
              <s id="s.013107">Neque verò probi viri eſt, aut ingenui
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              talia ſcire aut quærere, niſi homo iam adeò
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              integram mentem ſeruet, vt pecunias con­
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              temnere poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.013108">Docere verò talia, ſiccarij eſt. </s>
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              <s id="s.013109">Igitur hac parte magiæ maleficæ, quam­
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              uis naturalis, relicta, ad vtilem tranſeamus.
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              Priùs tamen illius vanitatem in quibuſdam
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              redarguamus: nam liber hic generalia con­
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              tinet præcepta, propria in libris de Rerum
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              varietate deſcripſimus. </s>
              <s id="s.013110">Dicunt, ſi vulua aut
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              membrum virile metiatur candela cerea,
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              quæ in funere fuerit, ille vel illa prohibetur
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              à Venere. </s>
              <s id="s.013111">Vel igitur à coitu maſculus cuiuſ­
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              libet fœminæ, vel illius tantum, cuius no­
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              mine agitur. </s>
              <s id="s.013112">Si illius tantùm, cùm nihil ei
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              ſit proprium præter verba, habebunt ver­
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              ba vim præter hominum conſenſum. </s>
              <s id="s.013113">Si cu­
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              iuſlibet fœminæ, igitur oportet vt perpetuò,
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              quòd experimento non congruit, vel tem­
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              pore quodam. </s>
              <s id="s.013114">Cùm verò nihil ſit, quod vel
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              ſeminis generationem prohibeat, nec ima­
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              ginationem, nec flatum, à quo tenditur, ma­
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              nifeſtum eſt hoc ſolùm in aliquibus contin­
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              gere, non ſemper, nec in omnibus.
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              </s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Diſputatio
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              contra ma­
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              giæ quædam
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              abſurda pla­
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              cita.</s>
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              Sigillorum
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              vis.</s>
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              <s id="s.013117">Ergo ſigillis primùm, vt ad rem reuer­
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              tar, vim non leuem tribuunt: Solis ad ma­
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              giſtratus, honores, gratiam cum principi­
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              bus: Iouis ad diuitias, & amicos: Veneris
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              ad voluptates: Martis ad fortitudinem: Mer­
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              curij ad ſolertiam: Saturni ad laborum pa­
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              tientiam: Lunæ ad populi fauorem. </s>
              <s id="s.013118">Atque
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              vtinam ſcire poſſem quid cuique conduce­
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              ret. </s>
              <s id="s.013119">Non ignoro, & lapides, & occaſionem
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              ſculpturæ proficere, figuram autem nihil.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013120">Verùm forſan figura, dum inſpicimus ani­
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              mum ( vt dixi) aliquantò magis mutare po­
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              teſt, quàm lapis, aut conſtitutio. </s>
              <s id="s.013121">Sed de his
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              alibi. </s>
              <s id="s.013122">Aſtrum ſamium, & calcem extinctam
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              in maluæ ſucco, aut mercurialis, efficere
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              poſſe putant, ſi manus illiniantur, ne ignis
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              noceat. </s>
              <s id="s.013123">At buffonem ſale extinctum ma­
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              gnum, ſi ſal in aqua diſſoluatur, interula
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              verò ſeu camiſia in ea aqua lauetur, illum
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              qui eam induerit, ſcabie grauiſſima corripi
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              affirmant. </s>
              <s id="s.013124">Hæc aut omninò vera ſunt, aut
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              parte quadam, aut veroſimilia. </s>
              <s id="s.013125">Neque enim
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              me latet, mulierem curatam nephriti, ima­
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              gine leonis aurea geſtata. </s>
              <s id="s.013126">Sed è cœlo peten­
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              da ratio. </s>
              <s id="s.013127">Quædam quidem magis vera vi­
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              dentur, quàm ſint, quædam autem magis ve­
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              ra ſunt quàm videantur. </s>
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              Contra
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              Buffonis vis.</s>
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              <s id="s.013129">Ex hoc genere vltimo eſt experimentum
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              illud à Boethio traditum, ſatis vulgatum,
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              quod nos vidimus ſæpe per ocium. </s>
              <s id="s.013130">Captis
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              duabus liris, teſtudinibuſve, alteram ſupi­
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              nam collocabis, priùs tamen ad concentum
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              neruis extenſis, remiſſiſque deductam. </s>
              <s id="s.013131">Pòſt
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              ſuper ſupinæ neruos ſecundum ac primum
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              paleæ fruſtum collocabis, tendéſque pri­
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              mum neruum inſtrumenti eius, quod mani­
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              bus tenes, cùm ſonum æqualem reddat illi,
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              qui in inſtrumento ſupino eſt, confeſtim fe­
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              ſtucæ ſubſiliet, ſaltabitque tanquam ab ali­
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              quo concuſſa: atque tranſlata eo modo pa­
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              leæ parte per ſingulos neruos, inſtrumenta
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              ad æqualem vocem, imò eandem mira arte
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              traduces. </s>
              <s id="s.013132">Cauſa tanti effectus ignota fuiſſe
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              videtur. </s>
              <s id="s.013133">An quòd non ſolùm ſubſilit, cum
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              ſonum æqualem edere poteſt? </s>
              <s id="s.013134">aut quia aër
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              ipſe æqualem habens vim mouere poteſt,
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              non autem remiſſior, aut magis incitatus.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013135">Sed nec hoc tamen verum eſt, cum in te­
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              nuiore neruo remiſſior contentio, æqualem </s>
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