Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              hac de cauſa malo appoſita erat, acceſſiſſe.
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              <s id="s.013760">Carbones quoque qui ibi aderant deuoraſſe,
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              & galli ſanguinem petiiſſe, quem protinus
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              iugulato gallo exugit. </s>
              <s id="s.013761">Inde rogaſſe, quid­
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              nam peterent? </s>
              <s id="s.013762">reſpondente nauclero, ven­
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              tos, & qua ex parte exponente, illos intra
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              triduum daturum ſe pollicitus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013763">Admonuit
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              quoque eos vt in occaſionem parati eſſent.
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              <s id="s.013764">Soluta coniuratione Arabs nullius eorum
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              quæ vel prædixerat, vel paſſus fuiſſet me
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              mor. </s>
              <s id="s.013765">Tempore tamen conſtituto, omnia ex
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              ſententia ſucceſſerunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013766">Ergo videntur ali­
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              quid, aut poſſe, aut præſcire dæmones, ſed
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              ob contemptum multa obliterata ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013767">Con­
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              temptus euenit, quoniam plerique his ar­
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              tibus confiſi non ſolùm malè periere, ſed
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              nihil egregium in arte ſua ſunt conſecuti.
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              <s id="s.013768">Id non tantùm artis leuitate contingit,
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              quantum tractantium audacia, qui hoc ſo­
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              lo auxilio ſibi multa pollicentur. </s>
              <s id="s.013769">Sed qui
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              iam armis, aut eruditione, aut arte aliqua
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              præſtant, videntur ab his non leue incre­
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              mentum habuiſſe: velut Petrus Aponenſis
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              Conciliator dictus, qui palàm eſt gloriam
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              æternam conſecutus necromantiæ auxilio,
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              vt ipſemet teſtatum reliquit. </s>
              <s id="s.013770">Erat vir alio­
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              quin inclytus, ſi labe hac caruiſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.013771">Vigebat
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              olim in Hiſpania hæc ars, publicéque doce­
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              batur in Salamantica academia, nunc ve­
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              rò publicis legibus ſublata eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013772">Vnde ibi
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              aliqua adhuc artis experimenta ſuper­
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              ſunt.
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              Nicolai Ve­
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              neti hiſto­
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              ria,</s>
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              Petrus Apo­
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              nenſis maxi­
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              mus necro­
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              manticus.</s>
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              Conſtantini
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              Fontani hi­
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              ſtoria.</s>
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              <s id="s.013776">Narrabat mihi Don Conſtantinus Fon­
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              tanus Hiſpanus Theologus, & ab exomolo­
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              geſi Principis Philippi Hiſpaniarum, dum
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              in Pinthia, ſeu Valleoletana, vulgato no­
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              mine Vagliadolit ciuitate Hiſpaniæ, in do­
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              mo typographi, quæ malè obſtrepitus au­
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              diebat nocturnos diuerſaretur, prima nocte
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              incubum ſenſiſſe: ſed cùm oliuas nigras in
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              cœna comediſſet, naturale exiſtimaſſe,
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              cùm incubus inter morbos numeretur. </s>
              <s id="s.013777">Se­
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              quenti nocte ſuper lecto videt, auditque fe­
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              les concertantes, quod quanquam durum
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              videretur, quia tamen eſſe poterat, & hoc
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              naturale eſſe duxit. </s>
              <s id="s.013778">Tertia autem nocte
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              cùm nondum dormitum iſſet, de hiſque diſ­
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              ſereret, tubæ vocem quaſi in aure audiuit.
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              <s id="s.013779">Exiſtimans ſibili ſpeciem eſſe, pueros vide­
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              bat, qui ibi aſtabant ridentes: tum vox illa
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              cubiculum circuire cœpit, perfectoque cir­
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              cuitu ſub lecto ſe abdidit, ibi diu ſtrepens,
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              cùm nihil videretur. </s>
              <s id="s.013780">Sed nullibi magis ſeu
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              dæmonum, ſeu mortuorum veſtigia videre,
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              aut audire licet, quàm circa morituros, aut
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              poſt ingentes clades, vel peſtilentiæ tempo­
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              ribus. </s>
              <s id="s.013781">Dupliciter autem morituris hæc eue­
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              niunt: vel ipſis, vnuſquiſque enim
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              moriatur aliquid videns terretur: & poſt­
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              quàm viderit, non ſuperuiuit. </s>
              <s id="s.013782">Et quanquam
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              naturale eſſe poſſit, mirum tamen eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013783">Vidi
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              clariſſimum virum qui cùm mouere ſe non
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              poſſet, vbi cò ventum eſt, parum abfuit
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              quin lecto ſe excuteret, aufugerintque cu­
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              ſtodes: nam alta nocte id contigit. </s>
              <s id="s.013784">Vel aliis
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              hæc contingunt: quòd enim Principibus
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              fulgura, & Cometes, & ſidus in cœlo,
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              mortis præſagia, id priuatis inconditis ſtre­
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              pitus, quales ego circa tales ſæpius vidi, &
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              audiui, ab aliiſque accepi. </s>
              <s id="s.013785">Verùm in his quæ
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              ego ſum aſſecutus non decipior. </s>
              <s id="s.013786">Vbi etiam
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              multa cadauera hominum malè ſepulta ia­
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              cent, proculdubio quædam apparent terri­
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              bilia, ſed quibus etiam naturalis ratio ſub­
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              ſcribere poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.013787">Porrò de his & peſtilentiæ
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              inuſitatis vocibus, curruumque imaginibus
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              quæ videntur, & tanquam ſubitò euertan­
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              tur ſtrepitibus, & fragoribus, in libris de
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              Varietate rerum ſatis locuti ſumus: nec ſat
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              monuiſſe, fuerit, experimenta perſuadere,
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              non demonſtrare. </s>
              <s id="s.013788">Diſputationiſque genus
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              hoc tale eſſe, vt affirmantibus nunquam de­
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              futura ſit fuga, atque certamen contradi­
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              centium, negantibus experimenta: vt non
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              ſatis hæc futura videantur ad opinionem de
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              dæmonibus apud ſtudioſos confirmandam.
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              <s id="s.013789">Nam de Telchinibus, cauſam dicere poſſu­
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              mus eſſe naturam lapidum, aut nimis fragi­
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              lium, aut corrupto ſpiritu redundantium
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              ſulphure, ac bitumine exuſtis. </s>
              <s id="s.013790">Illud nos ma­
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              gis mouet, quòd cùm aër, ætherque tantæ
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              ſint magnitudinis, regioque illa adeò amœna,
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              videamuſque terram habere ſua viuentia,
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              metalla, lapides plantas, aquam, & ipſam
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              piſces, tum aërem hunc infimum, quæ reſ­
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              pirant animalia, veriſimile haud videtur
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                tam</expan>
              molem vita ex toto eſſe deſtitutam:
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              quin potius credendum eſt animalîa ibi eſ­
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              ſe tanto his inferioribus excellentiora,
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              to regio illa clarior iſta eſt, ac purior in­
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              feriore. </s>
              <s id="s.013791">Hoc enim in cæteris ( vt dixi ) ele­
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              mentis cùm obſeruatum à natura videamus,
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              nec in Elementis tantùm, ſed etiam cœlo,
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              credendum eſt hanc totam machinam aë­
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              ris ſublimioris animalibus his, quæ nos dæ­
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              monas quaſi ſapientes vocamus, plenam eſ­
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              ſe. </s>
              <s id="s.013792">Nolim ego ad trutinam hæc ſectari, ve­
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              lut Porphyrius, Pſellus, Plotinus, Proclus,
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              Iamblicus, qui copiosè de his quæ non vide­
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              re, velut hiſtoriam natæ rei ſcripſerunt.
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              <s id="s.013793">Philoſophus ſum ego, placitis quantum li­
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              cet Peripateticorum hærens: hi verò non
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              admittunt dæmonas: nec probabilis eſt opi­
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              nio, quæ illos concedit in tam vaſta mole,
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              nam hic vt aues, & longè plus frequentes
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              adeſſent: cùm vix in vna prouincia tota ſe­
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              mel veſtigium, & in pluribus annis appa­
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              reat. </s>
              <s id="s.013794">Principes etiam, quorum fortuna eſ­
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              ſe ſapientiſſimos mortalium ſuadet, hæc, ta­
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              liaque contemnunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013795">Illud multos mouet,
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              quòd ſi vitas primas, ſeu mentes agnoſcunt,
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              mortales erunt ſimul ac immortales, quod
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              eſſe non poteſt, Si non, quid prohibetne hu­
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              manum genus deleant? </s>
              <s id="s.013796">inuiſibiles quum
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              ſint, & nullius imperio addicti. </s>
              <s id="s.013797">Vnum tan­
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              tùm ſcire præſtat, non dicere quenquam
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              probum hominem, dæmonum, etiam ſi ſint,
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              auxilio vti, contempto Dei optimi benefa­
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              ctoris, & à quo cuncta accepimus, noſtri nu­
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              mine. </s>
              <s id="s.013798">Ingratiſſimi enim opus eſt hoc homi­
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              nis: videmuſque eos qui talibus ſtudent, aut
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              illorum falſa perſuaſione dementatos. </s>
              <s id="s.013799">Con­
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              ſtat enim ex religionis inſtituto peſſimos
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              eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.013800">Si verò aliquid aliud eſt, tum ex ſacri­
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              ficiis, tum ex natura ac potentia ambitio­
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              ſiſſimos. </s>
              <s id="s.013801">Quod ſi Dei conſenſu iſta fiunt, pa­
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              rent miniſtri regi. </s>
              <s id="s.013802">Dæmonum igitur auxiliis
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              inniti fallax, & periculoſum plerunque, im­
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              probi autem aut ſtupidi ſemper. </s>
              <s id="s.013803">Dei enim
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              omnia ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013804">Præcantationes autem quæcun-</s>
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