Aristoteles, Physicorvm Aristotelis, sev, de natvrali auscultatione, libri octo

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            dinem definita ſit, circulum tamen continentem præferre
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            per temperiem queat, tum ratio ipſa commonſtrat (quippe
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            cùm non per longitudinem, ſed in latum nimio rigore, atq;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s16581" xml:space="preserve">incẽdio prematur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16582" xml:space="preserve">adeò ut niſi mare nonnuſquam loci pro-
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            hibeat, peruia tota ſit) tum ea quæ circa nauigationes, & </s>
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            itinera uidemus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16584" xml:space="preserve">Nam longitudo à latitudine haud parum
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            differt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16585" xml:space="preserve">quod enim à columnis Herculis ad terram Indicam
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            uſq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16586" xml:space="preserve">porrigitur, eo quod ab Aethiopia ad Mæotin uſq;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16587" xml:space="preserve">, & </s>
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            extremas Scytbiæ parteis pertingit, maius quàm quinq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16589" xml:space="preserve">ad
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            tria eſt, ſi quis tam nauigationes, quam uias, quatenus ta-
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            lium certitudo ſumi poteſt, metiri uelit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16590" xml:space="preserve">Atqui partem or-
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            bis terræ habitatam, in latum ad loca uſque inhabitata ex-
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            ploratam habemus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16591" xml:space="preserve">Nam hic, præfrigore, illic præ æſiu, ha
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            bitari prætereanequit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16592" xml:space="preserve">Quæ uerò ultra Indiam, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16593" xml:space="preserve">colum-
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            nas Herculis iacent, coniungi périnde quaſi continens fo-
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            ret tota telluris habitatæ portio, haudquaquàm uidentur. </s>
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            Cùm autem neceſſe ſit ut locus quidem ad alterum polum
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            ſimiliter ſeſe habeat, atq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16595" xml:space="preserve">is quem incolimus ad eũ, qui ſu-
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            pra nos eſt, conſtat quòd ut cætera alia, ita ſpirituum quo-
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            que ſtatio, proportione reſpondebit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16596" xml:space="preserve">Quare quemadmo-
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            dum nobis Aquilo, ſic & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16597" xml:space="preserve">illis uentus quidam ab ea quæ in-
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            ibi eſt urſa aſpirat, què huc penetrare haudquaquàm poßi-
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            bile eſt: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16598" xml:space="preserve">quando ne iſte quidem Aquilo, totam quæ apud
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            nos eſt partem orbis terrarum habitatam, peruadat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16599" xml:space="preserve">A qui-
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            lonius nanq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16600" xml:space="preserve">flatus, ceu abterr aneus eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16601" xml:space="preserve">At quia hæc habi-
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            tatio ad ſeptentriones poſita eſt, ideo Aquilo frequentißi-
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            mè ſpirat, ſed tamen & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16602" xml:space="preserve">apud nos deficit, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16603" xml:space="preserve">progredi lon-
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            gè non poteſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16604" xml:space="preserve">Quandoquidem circamare Auſtrale, quod
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            ultra Africam iacet ut hic Aquilo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16605" xml:space="preserve">Auſter ſpirant, ſic
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            illic Vulturnus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16606" xml:space="preserve">Fauonius uicißim abſq; </s>
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