Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              fieri poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013188">Tranſeunt & herbarum fermè
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              genera ſingula in diuerſas vermium aut ſer­
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              pentum ſpecies, variis præditas tum pro­
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              priis formis atque virtutibus. </s>
              <s id="s.013189">Et hanc ma­
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              gnam metamorphoſin vocamus. </s>
              <s id="s.013190">Quum enim
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              vt ſuprà docuimus, in putrefactione ſepare­
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              tur pingue humidum à terreo, putreſcunt
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              autem quæcunque putreſcere poſſunt, vt
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              herbæ, plantarum folia, carnes, oua, lac, dum
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              in vitreo vaſe poſita, fimo equino fumante
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              ſepeliuntur: neceſſe eſt talia ſic ſepulta hu­
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              midum excernere pingue, quo ſeparato vi­
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              uens animal generatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013191">Nec poteſt prohi­
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              beri generatio hæc, niſi ab excremento exu­
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              ſto, dum relinquitur miſtum humido pin­
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              gui. </s>
              <s id="s.013192">Nam quædam putreſcere non viden­
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              tur, vt amara, & acria: non enim animal ge­
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              nerant. </s>
              <s id="s.013193">Quoniam tam lentè id contingit, vt
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              prius exhalet, quod pinguis eſt humidi,
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              quàm ſeparetur. </s>
              <s id="s.013194">Omnis enim generatio (vt
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              dictum eſſt ) in ſeparatione conſiſtit. </s>
              <s id="s.013195">Quam­
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              obrem marceſcunt potiùs talia, atque tabeſ­
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              cunt, quam putreſcant. </s>
              <s id="s.013196">Amara verò facilius
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              acribus putreſcunt: nam in abſinthio ſæpius
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              vermes inuenies, quàm allio, vel cæpis. </s>
              <s id="s.013197">Non
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              enim quodcunque nobis amarum eſt, ama­
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              rum eſt animalibus. </s>
              <s id="s.013198">Teſtis eſt Poëta, de ca­
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              pris dicens:
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              Et ſalices carpetis amaras.
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              E ſingulis
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              plantarum
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              generibus
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              in fimo equi­
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              no putreſ­
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              cunt, ver­
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              mium pro­
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              priæ, nonnun­
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              quam ſer­
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              pentum ſpe­
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              cies generan­
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              tur.</s>
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              <s id="s.013200">Et zinziber quum putreſcit præter id,
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              quod pingue eſt, eſt etiam minus acre. </s>
              <s id="s.013201">Eo­
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              rum verò quæ putreſcunt, materiæ varietas
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              in cauſa eſt, vt formæ animalium diuerſæ
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              generentur. </s>
              <s id="s.013202">Si igitur quæ forma differunt,
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              ſpecie differunt: quæ verò ſpecie, viribus ac
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              moribus, & quæ ex materiis diuerſis gene­
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              rantur, forma differunt: neceſſe eſt, quæ ge­
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              nita ſunt diuerſis ex materiis, vires habere
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              diuerſas, velut de veſpis, aſpibus, crabroni­
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              buſque ſuperius dictum eſt.
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              Aquæ guttæ
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              incorrupto
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              aëre vertun­
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              tur in rube­
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              tas.</s>
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              <s id="s.013204">Quandoque verò ex eadem materia, di­
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              uerſa tamen cauſa efficiente, varia fiunt ge­
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              nera animalium: velut aquæ guttæ in æſta­
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              te generant pulices apud nos: eædem in Da­
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              riene noui orbis prouincia, confeſtim ver­
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              tuntur in rubetas. </s>
              <s id="s.013205">Vnde non mihi abſurdum
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              videtur, quendam vbi ſpuiſſet, intra dimidiæ
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              horæ ſpacium ranas pro ſputo exiguas oſten­
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              diſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.013206">Quicquid enim aëris natura poteſt, hu­
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              manam naturam æmulari docuimus. </s>
              <s id="s.013207">Et
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              commanducatis aliquibus forſan iuuabatur,
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              vtpote ranarum cinere, aut parte aliqua.
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              <s id="s.013208">Nam in his animalibus, quæ illuuie gene­
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              rantur, facilem illorum generationem eſſe
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              oſtendimus. </s>
              <s id="s.013209">Et quòd ex propriis ſordibus ge­
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              nerantur. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Breuẽ">Breuem</expan>
                <expan abbr="autẽ">autem</expan>
              , & velocem
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              plu­
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              uia declarat ſunt enim ex humida ſubſtantia.
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              <s id="s.013211">
                <expan abbr="Quamobrẽ">Quamobrem</expan>
              & tabefactis conueniunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013212">Sic igi­
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              tur minore, ne
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              fine miraculo credi po­
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              teſt, magos coram Pharaone virgas vertiſſe
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              in colubres. </s>
              <s id="s.013213">Ergo miris res proprietatibus
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              præditæ ſunt, tum regiones. </s>
              <s id="s.013214">Creta non alit
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              venenatum animal, & tamen tepet. </s>
              <s id="s.013215">Cauſa
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              igitur eſt, quia vel alimentum deeſt, vel aër
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              ipſe ob mutationes impedit: odores enim
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              boni prohibent illa, & exitio eis ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013216">Ruta
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              cùm multa magis aſtringant, & calefaciant,
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              confirmat ſingulari præſtantia ventriculum,
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              inteſtináque omnia. </s>
              <s id="s.013217">Fabæ corrumpunt vi­
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              cinum aërem, cùm tamen innoxiæ ſint ſi
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              edantur, imò proprietate quadam ſiſtunt à
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              capite fluxiones. </s>
              <s id="s.013218">Et quanquam alia ſit ratio
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              fructus, alia plantæ, & rurſus virentis fru­
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              ctus atque ſicci, non tamen adeò humida eſt
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              hæc planta, vt aërem afficere poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.013219">In no­
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              ſtris regionibus compertum eſt, bombyces
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              plus fabis aërem corrumpere. </s>
              <s id="s.013220">Corrumpunt
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              hæc animalia, & vermium genera omnia,
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              & locuſtæ, ob excrementa, & odorem pin­
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              guis humidi: illo enim abundare ea, ſuperius
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              declaratum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013221">At fabæ & ipſæ eo abundant
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              inter legumina: indicio eſt generatio ani­
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              malium in illis frequens. </s>
              <s id="s.013222">Ob id & piſa talia
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              erunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013223">Pleraque igitur, quod ſæpè dictum
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              eſt incerta his, illis cognita cauſa fiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013224">Ci­
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              trea ſeu medica mala calore panis putreſ­
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              cunt celerrimè, cum à multis longè calidio­
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              ribus minùs lædantur. </s>
              <s id="s.013225">Calidum enim illud
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              cum humidum ſit, ſiccare nequit, & ob id
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              putrefacit. </s>
              <s id="s.013226">Ob id par eſt panis calorem om­
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              nia ad putredinem iuuare: ſed ad hæc magis,
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              alia minus. </s>
              <s id="s.013227">Simili ratione quibuſdam admi­
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              ratione dignum videtur, quòd rubea tincto­
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              rum, ſeu Erythrodanum in manu detentum
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              vrinam tingat: neſcientibus, quòd canthari­
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              des ſanguineam prouocant vrinam, & ardo­
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              rem illius excitant, communi ſcilicet ratio­
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              ne: quia à calore manus ad actum talia per­
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              ducuntur: & vbi deducta fuerint, ab arteria­
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              rum oſculis ad veſicam deducuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.013228">Præſta­
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              bat igitur potius, quæ ex his ſequuntur in­
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              quirere. </s>
              <s id="s.013229">Primum, quod cum tam faciliter
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              penetret medicamentum hoc partes tenuiſ­
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              ſimas, illud habere neceſſarium eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013230">Deinde,
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              cum veſicam petat, aliquid cum illius natu­
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              ra habere commune. </s>
              <s id="s.013231">Quodque ſolùm ad il­
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              lam permeet: ſi alij iungatur, facillimè vim
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              illorum ad veſicam, & intrò per vniuerſum
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              corpus deducere potuit. </s>
              <s id="s.013232">Talis perſcrutatio
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              præterquam quòd pulchra eſt, vtilis etiam
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              in multis erit </s>
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              Creta non
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              alit animal
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              venenatum.
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              <s id="s.013234">Ventriculo,
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              & inteſtinis
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              firmandis.
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              <s id="s.013235">Fabæ aërem
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              vitiant.</s>
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              Citrea pu­
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              treſcunt pa­
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              ne calido
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              ſuperimpoſi­
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              to.
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              <s id="s.013237">Rubea tin­
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              ctorum in
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              manibus
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                tenta</expan>
              cur
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              vrinam tin­
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              gat.</s>
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              <s id="s.013238">Quorundam verò ſenſim vt procedam,
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              ratio obſcurior eſt: velut quòd animalia no­
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              xia oleribus, arcentur aqua inſolationis
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              dierum decem cancrorum aut pagurorum.
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              <s id="s.013239">Gallorum regis frater natu minor laborabat
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              vlcere peſſimo, prodigioſæque turpitudinis:
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              curatus eſt afflatu perpetuò pueri annum
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              agentis duodecimum. </s>
              <s id="s.013240">Nec abſque ratione:
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              ſpiritus enim à corde impubis, ætate firma
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              tamen ſyncerus eſt, ac corruptos humores
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              emendare poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013241">Si cum lacertæ ſepo, ha­
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              linitro, cyminoque farinam tritici miſcue­
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              ris, gallinæ hoc cibo ſaginatæ, adeò pin­
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              guefaciunt homines, qui eas ederint, vt diſ­
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              rumpantur. </s>
              <s id="s.013242">Atque hæc quidem ſecundùm
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              naturam, ideóque frequentius vera. </s>
              <s id="s.013243">Aliud
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              autem eſt, frequentius vera eſſe, aliud ma­
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              gis. </s>
              <s id="s.013244">Semper enim, quæ ſecundum naturam
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              ſunt, frequentius vera conſpiciuntur, at
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              non ſemper magis, vt de Herculeo lapide.
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              <s id="s.013245">A natura enim remotum dicitur, quod om­
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              ninò cauſas habet obſcuras: velut quòd ex
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              parte imminentis venti, cornu ac ſtercus bu­
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              bali crematim tuetur ( vt dicunt ) plantas ac
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              ſata à rubigine. </s>
              <s id="s.013246">Verius illud noſtrum inuen­
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              tum: ozymi ſuccum ex ſemuncia epotum
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              cum medio croci ſcrupulo, mirum in mo-</s>
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