Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ſibi detrahere titulum immeritum, ne me­
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              ritum aliis reddere cogeretur. </s>
              <s id="s.015659">Inde ſubiicit
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              tot Græca verba, vt paſſim: quæ quorſum,
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              cùm conuerſa habeantur. </s>
              <s id="s.015660">Si enim non erra­
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              runt interpretes, ad quid puerilis hæc oſten­
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              tatio? </s>
              <s id="s.015661">ſi errarunt, vbi admones? </s>
              <s id="s.015662">Licet tri­
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              bus in caſibus Græca miſcere libris, vel cum
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              Latina non habentur, id tam rarò facit, vt
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              vix duobus, aut tribus locis è pluſquam bis
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              millibus Græcis auctoritatibus citatis, vt
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              exiſtimare quiſque poſſit eum, nec illius
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              linguæ peritiam vllam habere: nam quis
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              neſciat vel ſimplici opera anagnoſtæ, quæ
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              Latinæ leguntur tranſcribere, ex codice
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              Græco ei reſpondente? </s>
              <s id="s.015663">Vel vbi lis eſt in le­
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              ctione, vel dictione, vel ſenſu, quomodo
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              nos in contradicentibus id facere ſæpiùs co­
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              acti ſumus, quàm voluimus: hîc nulla ap­
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              paret lis. </s>
              <s id="s.015664">Vel cùm res adeò grauis eſt, vt
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              vereamur, ne quis interpretatione maiorem
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              emphaſim addiderit, qua ratione in libello
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              de Animi immortalitate, etiam id facere
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              neceſſarium fuit. </s>
              <s id="s.015665">Cæterùm in aliis ſi quis
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              faciat, inepta ac puerili ambitione id feciſ­
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              ſe haud dubium eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015666">Attamen dices. </s>
              <s id="s.015667">Fuch­
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              ſius fecit in ſuis Paradoxis, & tu in libris de
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              Sapientia? </s>
              <s id="s.015668">Sed vtriuſque inuentum eſt, & ta­
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              men vterque reprehenſione dignus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015669">Ego
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              etiam reprehenſus, & meritò: ſi contingat
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              denuò edere, intelligent homines, quod in
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              pleriſque aliis, in quibus occaſio talis conti­
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              git, malle me iuſtè cedere, quàm iniuſtè re­
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              niti. </s>
              <s id="s.015670">Vterque etiam noſtrum ab hac inepta
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              oſtentatione abſtinuit: at noſtra ſepia dum
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              alij in ſenio ſapere incipiunt, ipſa deſipere
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              occipit. </s>
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              <s id="s.015671">259 Hic ſuo more nugatur nihil ad pro­
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              poſitum, ſed quæcunque legit, vel audiuit,
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              etiam ab aniculis omnia contulit in has
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              exercitationes. </s>
              <s id="s.015672">Si Hebræa compoſita, &
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              perfecta eſt, quid plus habet? </s>
              <s id="s.015673">num negat
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              præter diuerſa nominum ſignificata, diuer­
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              ſos pronuntiandi modos eſſe, atque tales vt
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              vnius verba ab alio pronunciari nequeant,
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              quæ de connexione adducit, non ſunt vera,
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              aut non primæ cauſæ: ſed vſus primum inde
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              linguæ lenitas. </s>
              <s id="s.015674">Latina enim vt plurimum in
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              fine accentum grauem habet, rotundát que
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              extremum dictionis. </s>
              <s id="s.015675">Quæ autem de mater­
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              næ Italicæ compoſitione dicit, neſcio an
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              ſomniauerit. </s>
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              <s id="s.015676">260 Ridicula eſt exprobratio ambitionis,
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              qui ipſe non aliud agat, quàm gloriari hic de
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              antiquitate, ſaltem teſtes, vt crederemus ap­
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              poſuiſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.015677">Ridiculoſius, quòd hiſtoriam de
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              Cairo (etiam eruditis adiicit)ſubtilem eſſe di­
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              cat. </s>
              <s id="s.015678">Quaſi ego hiſtoriam vrbium, non cauſam
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              magnitudinis earum, inter exempla ſubtili­
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              tatis adduxerim. </s>
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              <s id="s.015679">261 Prohibentur hi à legibus Chri­
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              ſtiani, & Mahumethi, vt olim à ciui­
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              libus Romani, & Carthaginenſes: ita vix
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              vnquam aliquid ad propoſitum. </s>
              <s id="s.015680">Conſtat
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              Gallos tuendæ libertatis cauſa id quandoque
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              egiſſe. </s>
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              <s id="s.015681">262 Sequutus ſum authores, ſecutus ſum
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              morem tabellionum, qui nomen etiam vſita­
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              tum apponunt. </s>
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              <s id="s.015682">263 Declamat, quòd dixerim homi­
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              nem ab homine plus differre, quàm à lupo
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              capram? </s>
              <s id="s.015683">Quid hoc eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.015684">vel de ſpecie, vel de
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              moribus, vel de corpore intelligi poteſt: non
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              de ſpecie, cùm iam ſciamus lupum, & ca­
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              pram ſpecie differre, non hominem ab ho­
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              mine: intelligendum eſt ergo vel de corpo­
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              re, vel moribus, atque in vtroque veriſſimum
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015685">Sed pulchrum erat cauſam huius inue­
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              nire, quam aliàs tradidiſſe memoriæ habe­
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              mus. </s>
              <s id="s.015686">Inde inter Philoſophos Theologus fit
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              repentè: & ex academia in ſacrarium ſe con­
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              fert, in quo ne vel momento perſiſtere po­
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              teſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015687">Raram hunc virum Mercurij conſtitu­
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              tionem habere neceſſe eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015688">Inde ſublata tan­
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              dem, quòd ſæpè in animo habuit, omni re­
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              rum naturali ratione: vt qui flagitiosè vi­
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              uunt, cùm mors aduentat, omni ſpe ſalutis ad
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              id deuenit, quo non inclyti Theologi, ſed in­
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              ſania verba, vt omnia dicat ſola Dei volun­
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              tate fieri. </s>
              <s id="s.015689">Quid ergo ædificat, vt domum ha­
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              beat, ſtudet, vt ſciat, ſerit vt plantæ oriantur,
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              vxorem duxit, vt filios haberet? </s>
              <s id="s.015690">at omnibus
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              his nónne ſufficiebat Dei voluntas? </s>
              <s id="s.015691">ô meræ
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              inſaniæ caput, nugarum author: quis tan­
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              dem vel mediocriter eruditus illum ferat? </s>
              <s id="s.015692">Sed
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              videat quò contradicendi ſtudium tranſtu­
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              lerit? </s>
              <s id="s.015693">Quod ad Darienis narrationem atti­
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              net, nouimus alibique in libris de Rerum
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              varietate docuimus, vocantúrque Patago­
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              nes: at Cæſarianus ille gigas, ex his eſſe
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              non poterat, quem Italia anno 1531. vi­
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              dit, cùm nondum regio illa innotuiſſet Cæ­
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              ſari. </s>
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              <s id="s.015694">264 Nónne videt iam de cauſa ipſa con­
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              ſtare? </s>
              <s id="s.015695">& eam conatur infringere. </s>
              <s id="s.015696">Quæ enim
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              cauſa facit, vt pars vna ſqualeat, altera viuat,
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              & luxuriet, eadem tum ſoli diſcrimen fœ­
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              cundum aut ſterilem faciunt, vt habitus in­
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              colarum etiam ipſi diuerſi ſint. </s>
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              <s id="s.015697">268 Species non miſcentur, vel eſt princi­
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              pium, cuius oppoſitum tamen eſt euiden­
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              tius in cane, alopeca, mula: vel debet
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              demonſtrari. </s>
              <s id="s.015698">Ita ſunt axiomata contentio­
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              ſorum. </s>
              <s id="s.015699">Quia tamen nihil ad nos quid re­
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              fert? </s>
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              <s id="s.015700">269 Quærit meritò de auiculis, quæ cùm
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              breuis vitæ ſint, maximè paſſeribus, non ta­
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              men corpora earum inueniuntur? </s>
              <s id="s.015701">Reſpondeo
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              moriuntur omnes hyeme: & inueniuntur ali­
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              quæ, præueniunt tamen animalia famelica
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              noſtram incuriam: par eſt etiam in nidis pe­
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              rire: at paſſerum nidis in foraminibus muro­
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              rum inacceſſis. </s>
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              <s id="s.015702">270 Non exteriorum, ſed membrorum
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              principalium ratio habenda eſt. </s>
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              <s id="s.015703">272. 273 Mirus conſenſus veritatis: ra­
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              tio qua oſtendit non dari aurum potabile,
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              eadem eſt ad vnguem cum ea, qua & ego
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              in libro de Aqua, & æthere vſus ſum, ad
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              declarandum aurum potabile fieri non poſ­
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              ſe. </s>
              <s id="s.015704">Porrò liber hic iam diu tranſmiſſus ad
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              Typographum, nondum tamen editus
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.015705">Similiter de ſpiratione piſcium, li­
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              cet non exquiſitè eiſdem verbis fermè, ta­
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              men iiſdem argumentis contra eundem
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              Rondelletium ſcripſi in libris de Rerum
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              varietate, editis ante ſuas exercitationes.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015706">Itaque ſi omnia tam fœliciter, nulli pòſt
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              habendus eſſet ſuus liber. </s>
              <s id="s.015707">Sed caſu benè inter
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              tot temerè ſcripta, vt contrà inter multa
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              benè, ſi quid temerè videntur, ſicut illud, de </s>
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