Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              phraſti de oleaſtro Megaræ: dicta ſunt hæc
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              aliàs, in quibus Ariſtoteles, & Plutarchus,
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              vt cauſam redderent, non parum laborarunt.
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              <s id="s.013616">Videntur & Telchines dæmones ſubterra­
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              nei, qui fodientes ruina opprimunt, aut
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              ſtrangulant igneo quodam ſpiritu. </s>
              <s id="s.013617">Sed de
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              oraculis ne fraude ſacerdotum ederentur,
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              multi dubitarunt: alij propriam quandam
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              terræ illius naturam eſſe volunt, qua velut
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              morbus contrahatur: at ectaſis quidam
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              morbus eſt, oraculum verò ſine ectaſi non
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              fit, non tamen cum illa. </s>
              <s id="s.013618">Igitur dubitatio
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              magna eſt de his. </s>
              <s id="s.013619">Auget eam Pauſanias, vir
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              ( vt dixi
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              veridicus, in his quæ viſa à ſe re­
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              tulit. </s>
              <s id="s.013620">Neque cuiquam alij hac in re magis
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              credendum eſt, vt qui eam expertus fuerit.
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              <s id="s.013621">Sed libet illius verba ſubiungere: Antrum
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              Trophonij, in quod hoc modo deſcenditur.
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              <s id="s.013622">Noctu eum qui ingreſſurus eſt, abducunt
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              ad fluuium Hercynum abductum oleo vn­
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              gunt, & lauant duo pueri ciuim filij annos
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              nati circiter tredecim, quos Hermas, ſeu
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              Mercurios appellant. </s>
              <s id="s.013623">Iidem deſcendentem
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              lauant, & quæcunque oporteat tanquam
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              ſerui adminiſtrant. </s>
              <s id="s.013624">Inde non ſtatim ad ora­
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              culum, ſed à ſacerdotibus ad aquæ fontes
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              ducitur, qui proximè inuicem ſunt coniun­
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              cti. </s>
              <s id="s.013625">Ibi aquam oportet bibat, quam Obliuio­
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              nis appellant, vt obliuio omnium inducatur,
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              quæ antehac cogitauit. </s>
              <s id="s.013626">Poſt hæc aquam
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              aliam bibit Memoriæ, vt eorum quæ videri
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              in deſcenſu meminiſſe poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.013627">Poſt hæc ſimu­
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              lachrum vt eſt intuitus ( hoc Dædali opus
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              eſſe aiunt, & ſacerdotes nemini, niſi qui ad
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              Trophonium deſcendunt, exhibent ) & ha­
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              bitis ad id precibus eſt veneratus, ad oracu­
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              lum progreditur, tunica indutus linea, &
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              vitis circa tunicam cinctus, eius item loci
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              crepida ſubligatus. </s>
              <s id="s.013628">Eſt autem oraculum ſu­
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              pra nemus ad montem. </s>
              <s id="s.013629">Fundamentum in
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              circuitu iactum candidis lapidibus. </s>
              <s id="s.013630">Ambitus
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              fundamenti eſt inſtar aræ minimæ. </s>
              <s id="s.013631">Paulu­
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              lum fortaſſe abeſt, quin altitudine ſit duo­
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              rum cubitorum. </s>
              <s id="s.013632">Incumbunt fundamento
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              columnæ acuminatæ æneæ, & quibus conne­
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              ctuntur vincula. </s>
              <s id="s.013633">Per hæc ianuæ ſunt intra
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              ambitum fabricatæ. </s>
              <s id="s.013634">Hiatus ipſe non caſu,
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              aut natura factus eſt, ſed arte, compoſitio­
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              neque accuratiſſima extructus. </s>
              <s id="s.013635">Ædificij ip­
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              ſius figura furnum repræſentat, Cuius latitu­
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              do, quantum coniectura aſſequi licet, qua­
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              tuor fermè cubitorum eſt, profunditas verò
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              non vltra octo extenditur. </s>
              <s id="s.013636">Deſcenſus in pa­
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              uimentum non eſt conſtructus: ſed vt quis
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              ad Trophonium venit, ſcalam ei offerunt
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              anguſtam & leuem, quæ intra ædificium
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              collocatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013637">Oſtium per quod in Tropho­
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              nium deſcenditur, latitudinem habet duo­
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              rum dodrantalium: altitudo dodrantalis.
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              <s id="s.013638">Deſcenſurus ergo ſe ſupra pauimentum in­
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              clinat, placentas habens mellitas, & cauer­
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              næ pedes primùm iniicit, & genua ceden.
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              <s id="s.013639">do inſerit paulatim. </s>
              <s id="s.013640">Vbi verò genua immi­
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              ſerit, reliquum corpus totus confeſtim at­
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              trahitur, tanquam fluuius maximus, & ra­
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              pidiſſimus vorticè hominem intus abſorbe­
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              ret. </s>
              <s id="s.013641">Cæterùm qui intra adytum venerunt,
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              non vno & eodem modo futura edocentur,
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              ſed quidam fortaſſis coràm vident, alij au­
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              tem audiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013642">Redeunt qui deſcendunt per
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              eaſdem anguſtius primò pedibus emiſſis,
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              deinde reliquo corpore. </s>
              <s id="s.013643">Neminem mortuum
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              qui ſit ingreſſus audiuimus, præter vnum ex
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              Demetrij ſatellitibus, qui quum nullis per­
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              actis ſacris deſcendiſſet, Deo etiam incon­
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              ſulto, ſperans ablaturum aurum & argen­
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              tum, fertur non ex oſtio ſacro eiectum, ſed
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              alibi cadauer illius apparuiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.013644">Quæ igitur
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              huic contigerint, quæque ingreſſuris, & in­
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              greſſis eueniant, dicta ſunt à me dictu di­
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              gniſſima. </s>
              <s id="s.013645">A Trophonio egreſſum ſacerdo­
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              tes excipiunt, & in ſolium collocant quod
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              memoriæ dicitur: neque enim eſt ab adyto
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              procul. </s>
              <s id="s.013646">Sedentem ibi interrogant quæ vi­
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              derit, quæque audierit. </s>
              <s id="s.013647">Quibus perceptis
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              commendant eum his ad quos curare eum
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              pertinet. </s>
              <s id="s.013648">Hi verò in ædificium illud, vbi prius
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              apud fortunam, & bonos genios vitam age­
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              bat, ſublatum transferunt metu adhuc atto­
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              nitum, & nec ſe ipſum agnoſcentem, nec
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              eos qui aſtant. </s>
              <s id="s.013649">Poſteaquàm non minus ea
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              cogitat, quàm quæ prius cogitabat, in ri­
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              ſum erumpit. </s>
              <s id="s.013650">Hæc ego non audita refero,
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              ſed vidi quondam, & Trophonij oraculum
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              ipſe conſului. </s>
              <s id="s.013651">Placuit narrationem prudentis
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              ac veridici viri, quique negotio interfuit,
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              veluti raram ac firmam adiicere: quando­
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              quidem pauciſſimi talia adierint, quorum
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              pars maxima ſtupida, reliqua mendacium
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              gloriæ ſibi loco eſſe exiſtimat: quamobrem
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              hiſtoriam hanc huic loco ſubtexui, in qua
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              fraudes ſacerdotum quantaſcunque confin­
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              gas licet, fraudi aſcribi nequit, quod intus
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              velut à gurgite raperetur, quodque pedibus
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              eiiceretur. </s>
              <s id="s.013652">Quòd ſi id natura loci conſtabat,
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              oportuit quæ audiret noni dolo eſſe conſe­
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              cta, cùm in tam violento loco, nemo ad
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              confingendam technam ſtare potuiſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.013653">At
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              dices, ambigua ſunt oraculorum reſponſa.
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              <s id="s.013654">Demonſtratum eſt in libro de Fato, quòd
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              ſi oracula ambigua non eſſent non eſſent
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              oracula. </s>
              <s id="s.013655">Similiter & mathematicorum præ­
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              dictiones, ſe non eadem ratione: verùm ne­
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              que omnia. </s>
              <s id="s.013656">Hoc autem alibi ( vt dixi
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              )
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              de­
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              monſtratum eſt. </s>
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              Dæmones
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              Telchinnes.</s>
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              Antri Tro­
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              phanij ora­
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              culum.</s>
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              Oracula ſi
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              non eſſent
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              ambigua,
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              oracula non
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              eſſent.</s>
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              Melantho­
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              nis hiſtoria.</s>
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              <s id="s.013661">Sed nimis euidentia ſunt, quæ Philiphus
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              Melanthon vir eruditus in ſecundo ſuorum
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              Progymnaſmatum Phyſicorum recitat, di­
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              cens: Anno ſalutis 1530. Norimbergæ cùm
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              ſacerdoti dæmon in cryſtallo locum abſcon­
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              diti theſauri oſtendiſſet, loco defoſſo, qui
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              prope vrbem erat, amicoque adhibito ( is
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              poſtmodum hiſtoriam retulit ) arcam cum
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              cane nigro accubante, quaſi cuſtode vide­
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              runt. </s>
              <s id="s.013662">Auſus ingredi ſacerdos, loci ruina ſta­
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              tim oppreſſus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013663">Hic nihil deſideratur, prę­
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              ter eius fidem qui Melanthoni ſcripſit, cùm
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              Melanthon non dicat ſe adfuiſſe præſen­
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              tem. </s>
              <s id="s.013664">Conſtat verò illum in Sexonia habita­
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              re, vel ſaltem à Norimberga procul. </s>
              <s id="s.013665">Nam
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              de illius fide haud dubitamus. </s>
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              <s id="s.013666">Verùm ſunt alia huius rei experimenta:
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              placet autem duo ex Eraſmo Roterodamo
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              viro docto, & minimè ſuperſtitioſo, vt etiam
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              in Spectro talia irriſerit vbertim, ex epiſto­
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              lis ſubiungere. </s>
              <s id="s.013667">Oppidum de quo tibi nar­
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              ratum eſt, Germanis dicitur Schiltach.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013668">Abeſt à Friburgo octo millibus paſſuum
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              Germanicis magnis: de quo an omnia ve­
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              ra ſint, quæ vulgò iactantur, non auſim </s>
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