Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.015707">
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              quo tanta hic de Crabronibus: vbi ſcarabeis
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              legi debuerat. </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.015708">274 Quid Periander, Lyſander, Alcibia­
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              des, Demoſthenes, Æſchines, Pharis, Cato
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              maior, Cicero, Hortenſius, Saluſtius, Lu­
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              cianus. </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.015709">275 Motus eſt cauſa breuitatis, quies
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              cùm ſit priuatio, non eſt cauſa longitudinis
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              eius, ſed non impedit eam. </s>
              <s id="s.015710">Vnus eſt calor
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              æthereus, non elementum ſub Luna, ſed vis
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              cœleſtis motu impreſſa, motu conſeruata.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015711">Cætera nugæ meræ, vt ſolet. </s>
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              <s id="s.015712">278 Piſces maximè mobiles ſunt, quia
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              nullo labore prorſus, quia ſpontè pen­
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              dent, mouentur, & quoniam non tam fa­
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              cilè ſtant, quàm mouentur, indicio ſunt,
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              qui natant. </s>
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              <s id="s.015713">279 Reprehendit de Latinitate, quæ
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              non ſunt in codice vllo, neſcio an eſſet
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              ebrius. </s>
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              <s id="s.015714">280 Galeni ſententia defendi, licet ægrè
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              poſſit, probari non poteſt. </s>
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              <s id="s.015715">281 Saltem Galeni auctoritas de lie­
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              ne illum mouiſſet, poſtquàm ratio non
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              perſuaſit. </s>
              <s id="s.015716">Lien rarior eſt, & craſſior, ca­
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              ro tenuior, & denſior. </s>
              <s id="s.015717">At pulmonis
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              concoctu difficilius alia ratione:
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              plus enim diſtat à natura chymi: lien ergo
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              dupliciter. </s>
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              <s id="s.015718">283 Hic nugatur, nam declaratio
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              oſtendit eadem eſſe in ſiccis, nam humida
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              cohærent, etiam ſi craſſa ſint. </s>
              <s id="s.015719">Sed falli­
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              tur, quoniam quæ ſpiraculis abundant,
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              rara eſſe credit. </s>
              <s id="s.015720">De ſuo Thur, ſibi reſpon­
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              det. </s>
              <s id="s.015721">De pumice, craſſior eſt, quàm lapis ex
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              quo factus eſt, etiam plerunque craſſus,
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              nónne dixi ignem, quod relinquitur, craſſius
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              redditur. </s>
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              <s id="s.015722">284 Vides adeò illum inſanire, vt etiam
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              res rebus contradicere putet. </s>
              <s id="s.015723">Strigoſi poſ­
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              ſunt abundare intùs humido pingui. </s>
              <s id="s.015724">An­
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              glorum regio temperatior noſtra, quia mi­
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              nus diſcriminis inter tempora, minùs fri­
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              gida hyems, minùs calida æſtas. </s>
              <s id="s.015725">In iuuen­
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              ta etiam ſolida reſtaurantur, ſed non magnis
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              ex defectibus, vt vulneribus, à quibus etiam
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              pueri. </s>
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              <s id="s.015726">285 Calidum pro ſyncero & mundo ac­
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              cipere licuit, ſed huic ranæ ramicum cu­
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              ratrici, ne faſtidium pareremus, vtque
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              tandem aliquid in tot conatibus impetraſ­
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              ſe videatur, ſuſtulimus. </s>
              <s id="s.015727">Imitati Colum­
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              nam cardinalem, qui cùm fratrem nimij
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              ſumptus argueret, tandem ex centum viginti
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              familiaribus ſocium precum ſacerdotum
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              tanquam ſuperfluum è familiæ numero ſu­
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              ſtulit. </s>
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              <s id="s.015728">288 Hic ſuum tandem (adeò cupidus eſt,
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              nos inſectandi)lancinat Ariſtotelem, vir om­
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              nium, quos viderim, cognouerim, audierim,
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              maximè inconſtans. </s>
              <s id="s.015729">Et quid nugatur neſcit.
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              <s id="s.015730">Illud etiam ridiculum, quòd putat nigrum
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              in oui cacumine oſtendere roſtri genera­
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              tionem, nec animaduertit dum pullus ge­
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              neratur, roſtrum ſub ala ſiniſtra latere. </s>
              <s id="s.015731">Ita
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              vir hic cùm de rebus ipſis agit, illicò cadit in
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              foueam. </s>
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              <s id="s.015732">290 Durum videtur, quod fœtus ſubeat
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              formas innumerabiles, tum quia vbi prin­
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              cipium & finis, id numera terminari poteſt:
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              falſum vt in viſibilibus ſpeciebus: ſolùm ve­
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              rò vbi tale principium, & finis non loco,
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              ſed numero terminatur, tum quia generatio
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              non eſt motus, ſed varietas illa eſt mutatio
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              in qualitate: cùm ergo ex ouo iam genita
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              ſunt cor, & iecur, tantùm, vtrum erit
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              ouum, & caro ſimul, ergo pars pullus, &
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              pars ouum, & ita duo. </s>
              <s id="s.015733">Deinde ſi manet for­
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              ma oui, donec fit pullus erit mortuus calidior
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              viuente. </s>
              <s id="s.015734">Fiat ex A, termino oui perfecto,
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              permanemus vſque quò perueniat ad B, pul­
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              lus, qui abſoluatur in C, idem cùm mori­
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              tur, quia per te non niſi in extremo mori­
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              tur, perueniat ex E, in F: igitur ſit A H,
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              æqualis F G: & E K, æqualis B C: erit to­
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              ta BH, mortuum, ſeu ouum, calidius, quàm
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              in toto K F, pullo viuente. </s>
              <s id="s.015735">Et propter hoc
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              longè melius Melanchthon, quàm qui ſic
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              Ariſtotelem interpretantur. </s>
              <s id="s.015736">Nam & acci­
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              dentia declarat, quod generatur non eſſe
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              quod generabitur, nec id ex quo gene­
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              ratur. </s>
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              <s id="s.015737">292 Nunquam exiſtimaſſem eum adeò
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              inſanum eſſe vt video. </s>
              <s id="s.015738">Hic tanta de Siligi­
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              ne, & Baorea præter propoſitum, nobis
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              enim notiſſima eſt, quàm ſiliginem eſſe pu­
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              tant, qua conficiunt Germani panem, ob
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              tritici ſcilicet defectum. </s>
              <s id="s.015739">Vult autem ſiligi­
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              nem eſſe zeam, hic non eſt locus adhuc di­
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              ſputationi, ſed in commentariis medicis,
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              dum profiterer, nemini abundè tractaſſe.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015740">Vnum eſt, te confici tuo argumento: Siligo
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              non habet nomen Græcum, zea Græcum
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              eſt, ergo ſiligo non eſt zea. </s>
              <s id="s.015741">Spelta eſt zea,
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              ergo ſpelta non eſt ſiligo. </s>
              <s id="s.015742">Simili ineptia
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              cùm ego omninò non affirmen, nec ne­
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              gem, maizum eſſe ſorgum diſputat, ac
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              dixiſſem, argumentiſque futilibus. </s>
              <s id="s.015743">Ni­
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              hil inanius, dummodò loquatur, ſat
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              habet. </s>
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              <s id="s.015744">293 Loca habent vim, vt linguas, &
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              áffectus expoſcant. </s>
              <s id="s.015745">Germanus vix aut nun­
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              quam maximo cum labore Latina, Latinè
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              proferet? </s>
              <s id="s.015746">Italus Germanica: attamen men­
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              tis ſpecies eædem. </s>
              <s id="s.015747">Senties, quiſquis es, in
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              itineribus ſenſim non miſtione, ſed depra­
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              uatione linguam in linguam degenerare:
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              non tamen vnam linguam locus ſibi depo­
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              poſcit. </s>
              <s id="s.015748">Sed aſpera ſemper erit Germanica,
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              mollis Græca, dura Italica: mores enim con­
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              ſequuntur. </s>
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              <s id="s.015749">294 Simili impudentia contra veritatem
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              luctatur, volens docere linguarum ſenſa poſ­
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              ſe plenè tranſponi ex vna in aliam. </s>
              <s id="s.015750">Ipſe lu­
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              cretur omnem meam ſubſtantiam, & ſolùm
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              primum carnem Virgilij in maternam lin­
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              guam carmine reddat. </s>
              <s id="s.015751">Si non fateatur ſe
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              eſſe blateronem, adeò impudentem, vt
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              eius cauſa, & communis profeſſionis eru­
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              beſcam. </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s id="s.015752">De multis ſimilis ſtupor: naturâ omnes </s>
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