Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663
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              ſcripta mea valeam? </s>
              <s id="s.014427">Equidem ſi bona erunt,
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              tuebuntur docti, communis hominum con­
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              ſenſus, princeps aliquis bonus, genius qui­
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              dam: ſi mali, nec opto, nec è re mea eſt, aut
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              meorum, aut humani generis, vt ſuperſint.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.014428">Victus es? </s>
              <s id="s.014429">fatebor: quid amplius vis? </s>
              <s id="s.014430">à ma­
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              ximo viro victus ero, qui iam quatuordecim
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              volumina. </s>
              <s id="s.014431">Exotericarum exercitationum
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                ſcripſiſſe</expan>
              gloriatur: cùm nulla alia tamen
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              prodierit in lucem, ab vltima editione vide­
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              tur inçhoaſſe: forſan & ab hac ſi abſtinuiſ­
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              ſet, parum detrimenti acceptura fuiſſet reſ­
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              pub. </s>
              <s id="s.014432">literaria. </s>
              <s id="s.014433">Intelligo & ſimili argumen­
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              to contra Eraſmum conſcripſiſſe, vt huic
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              monomachiæ vir ſtrenuus, ac miles egre­
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              gius aſſuetus videatur. </s>
              <s id="s.014434">Sed illam videre non
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              licuit, neſcio an Eraſmus, qui & ipſe his
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              certaminibus non parum gaudebat, illi reſ­
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              cripſerit. </s>
              <s id="s.014435">Verum vtcumque res cedat, malo
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              iacturam facere gloriæ quàm temporis. </s>
              <s id="s.014436">Pi­
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              geret quòd inter tot occupationes menſem
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              abſumpſiſſem, niſi me delectaſſent mirum
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              in modum viri acumen, ſales, ſcomata: neſ­
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              cio an aliis arridebit? </s>
              <s id="s.014437">Vnum tamen optaſ­
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              ſem, quòd cum de cauſis linguæ Latinæ con­
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              ſcripſiſſet librum, vt Latinè ſaltem ſcripſiſ­
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              ſet. </s>
              <s id="s.014438">Secundum quod ſperauit, vt reor, &
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              multò minus obtinere poteſt quàm primum
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              eſt, vt ego iurgiis ſecum contendam, quòd
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              tam à natura mea alienum eſt, quàm vt
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              video illi familiare. </s>
              <s id="s.014439">Turpe mihi videtur phi­
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              loſopho iurgiis agere, Chriſtiano conten­
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              dere, probo viro criminari quenquam, me­
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              dico ſeneſcenti iam ac viro graui ineptè
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                <expan abbr="cõuincia">conuicia</expan>
              in alium ingerere: etenim malo malè
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              audire, quàm dicere, iniuriam pati, quàm in­
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              ferre, aut reddere: quod
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              admiratio­
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              ne dignum ſit ab Ariſtotele in Rhetoricis
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              præcipi, tamen præcipitur, cùm puer eſſem
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              audiebam: Contra verboſos noli contendere
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              verbis. </s>
              <s id="s.014440">Negat ſe iurgiis acturum, ab iniu­
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              riis abſtinere ſe prædicat. </s>
              <s id="s.014441">Quid prohibet, ne
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              ego illum in ius vocem, atque de mendatio
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              agam ex lege. </s>
              <s id="s.014442">De ætate quoque, titulo de
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              interrogationibus non ſemel, ſed pro qua­
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              cunque pagina ter, ſi communi noſtro com­
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              putemus? </s>
              <s id="s.014443">ô virum egregium, & moribus his
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              illuſtrem. </s>
              <s id="s.014444">At Plinium aſinum appellaſti
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              ?
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              il­
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              lud malè habeat, quòd & ipſe purus cùm
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              Grammaticus eſſet, imò ne Grammaticus
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              quidem, qui tot cenſuris ad linguæ Latinæ
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              candorem redigi per tot illuſtres viros ma­
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              ximis cum laboribus nondum potuerit, de
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              omnibus diſciplinis ſcribere auſis ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.014445">Hos
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              ego viros tamen non odi: ſed temeritatem
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              incredibilem in tanto mentis ſtupore, repre­
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              hendo: at aſinum appellaſti? </s>
              <s id="s.014446">Galenus hoc ta­
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              men ſæpè facit, vt quaſi iubeat rudem inſci­
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              tiam ſic mulctandam, imò etiam nomine
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              molaris lapidis. </s>
              <s id="s.014447">Sed timet ( vt video) exem­
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              plum, vix enim è Grammaticæ ſcholis pro­
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              greſſus, vbi tot ſcuticæ, erroréſque Gramma­
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              ticæ contempta latinitas torquent eum, au­
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              ſus eſt ſcribere de omnibus, & tamen gloria­
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              tur de virtute, ac nobilitate. </s>
              <s id="s.014448">Itaque virtutem
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              (vt video) appellat inuidere, criminari, male­
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              dicere, conuiciari: nam aliam virtutem non
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              deprehendo in eius commentariis, niſi for­
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              ſan frigidam quandam vrbanitatem, cùm
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              etiam vita eius incomperta mihi prorſus ſit.
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              <s id="s.014449">At quòd nobilis ſit credere velim, cùm ſit ex
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              deſcendentibus dominorum Patauij, Vero­
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              næque, qui ſibi in principatum aſciuêre, è
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              quibus vnus Canis Sigorius, fratrem occi­
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              dit. </s>
              <s id="s.014450">Noſtram familiam, licet conſtet
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              quin­
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              gentis ſaltem annis fuiſſe patriciam,
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              ſeptem, atque inſuper menſibus octo, non
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              tyrannide, ſed electione
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              vrbi Me­
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              diolanenſi, ſeu Cardani ſimus, ſeu Caſtellio­
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              nei
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              (
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              nam eam familiam etiam Pontificem
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              maximam Celeſtinum 4. virum optimum, vt
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              Platina, aliique teſtantur, habuiſſe certum
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              eſt ) non tamen in numero laudum repono
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              ſed oneris potius, malimque bonus ac præ­
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              ftans maioribus perditis, atque humilibus,
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              quàm è ſplendida, atque innocenti familia
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              perditum & degenerem.
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              Nam genus, & proa­
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              uos, & quæ non fecimus ipſi, vix ea noſtra
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              voco.
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              <s id="s.014451"> Sit
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              ſtirpe quantumuis clarus, mihi
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              ſufficiat Hieronymum eſſe Cardanum,
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                quam</expan>
              non negauerim ob nobilitatem in ho­
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              nore habitum,
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              etiam ab æmu­
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              lis fuiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014452">Verùm ſcio exiſtimabit ob hæc
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              acerba illius maledicta me ſibi iratum eſſe,
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              & eum odio non leui proſequi
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              ?
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              Sed fallitur
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              maximè, imò eum non parum diligo,
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              quòd quæ in me dixit potius atrabile affe­
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              ctus, ſeu ob longa ſtudia, vt ipſe fatetur, ſeu
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              ob incommoda atque vexationes, quibus
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              nunc æmulis omnes eruditionis cultores ni­
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              mis, quàm vellemus affici ſolent, quàm certo
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              iudicio, ac ex voluntate dicta exiſtimem. </s>
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              verò & illud plurimum facit, quòd hæc ma­
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              ledicta in me nemo, qui nouerit dicta puta­
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              bit, quoniam mihi non conueniunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014454">Eſt etiam
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              Chriſtiani viri officium amare inimicos ſuos
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              hoc enim expreſsè Seruator pręcipit. </s>
              <s id="s.014455">Natura
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              etiam atque inſtituto ad hoc maximè para­
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              tus ſum, vt neque iraſcar, neque ab iniuria
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              commouear. </s>
              <s id="s.014456">Turpe quoque mihi eſſet, qui
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              tam pulchrè in libris de Arcanis æternitatis,
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              de non vlciſcenda iniuria peroraui, etiamſi
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              quis magnum malum acceperit, nunc ob ſola
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              verba iraſci, ac velle talionem reddere? </s>
              <s id="s.014457">Qui­
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              nimò expertus ſum etiam hanc viam con­
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              tem nendi iniurias nec vlciſcendi, eſſe vtilio­
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              rem, atque ita plerumque eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014458">Deinde dicam,
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              vt Philoſophus ille, non hæc dixiſſet ni vera
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              eſſent, forſan quæ mihi crimina obiicit vera
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              ſunt? </s>
              <s id="s.014459">& multo maiora? </s>
              <s id="s.014460">neque enim ego vel
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              ille, qui nimis magnis affectibus laboramus,
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              ego
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              , ipſe
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              , verum diſcernere,
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              ac rectè diiudicare poſſumus. </s>
              <s id="s.014461">Ergo alij iudi­
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              cabunt, quorum ſententiæ potius ſtandum
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              arbitror quàm iraſci. </s>
              <s id="s.014462">Deinde ſint omnia hæc
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              vana, cur odio habere, aut ſuccenſere illi de­
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              beo, qui mihi tam multiplicem præbuit vti­
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              litatem? </s>
              <s id="s.014463">tametſi magna ex parte nolens for­
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              ſan fecerit? </s>
              <s id="s.014464">Sed etſi nolentem ex parte non
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              feciſſe ſcio, non tamen quòd nolens effece­
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              rit, ſcire poſſum: quæ verò incerta ſunt, in
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              meliorem partem trahere ingenui hominis
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014465">Itaque audirem: primum cum oblatus
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              fuit liber,
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              parum fauſta mihi euene­
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              rant, quæ
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              nullo modo me torſerint
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              iam diu enim non
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              his certis ratio­
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              nibus, adeò vt omnes
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              æmuli mei admi­
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              rentur,
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              quod ſcriptis docui melius
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              etiam factis præſtare, nihilo ſecius neque
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              lætabar. </s>
              <s id="s.014466">Sed accepto libro, vbi tot nugas, </s>
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