Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              <s id="s.003605">
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              naturalis generatio promptior eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003606">Accedit
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              quòd montium vires non exhauriuntur li­
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              gonibus, raſtris, aratro: nec vllo modo ho­
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              minum induſtria perſpirate coguntur. </s>
              <s id="s.003607">Eſt
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              etiam montium ſolidior ſubſtantia, vnde ca­
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              lor ille melius continetur, qui in agris ob
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              terræ mollitiem difflatur. </s>
              <s id="s.003608">Eſſe autem calo­
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              rem illum cœleſtem, iam docuimus, tum
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              quia igneus, ac putridus parum alter, reli­
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              quus nulla ex parte generationi vtilis eſt,
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              tum etiam, quod videmus, in Oriente, & Me­
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              ridie gemmas nobiliores & aurum perfectiſ­
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              ſimum magis generari. </s>
              <s id="s.003609">Quinetiam ſi quis
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              eiuſdem generis gemmas conferat in Orien­
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              te, ac Meridie genitas, vt carbunculos &
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              amethyſtos, cum his quos Germania mittit,
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              mirum in modum differre, & duritie, &
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              ſplendore animaduertet, atque adeò vehe­
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              menter, vt non eiuſdem generis eſſe putet.
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              Cauſa eſt, quòd Oriens calidior ſit, & humi­
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              dior, pinguiórque. </s>
              <s id="s.003610">Ergo ſi ſeminibus hæc
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              generarentur, aut igneus ille calor eſſet, aut
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              putridus, quandoquidem & in Iſlandia inſu­
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              la ſub Septentrione ardeant montes, quòd
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              prohiberet perfectiſſimas gemmas generari,
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              tum etiam auro abundare? </s>
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              Cur in mon­
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              tibus metal­
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              lica generen­
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              tur.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Cauſa cur
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              aurum &
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              gemmæ in
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              oriente, &
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              meridie ma­
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              gis generen­
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              tur.</s>
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              <s id="s.003613">Sunt etiam in montibus niues, & diutur­
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              na glacies, quæ calorem in imo recundunt,
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              & læta omnia ob id faciunt, cùm in campis
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              calor diſſoluatur ab aëris externo calore:
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              quò fit vt ad montes redeam, vt hi metalli­
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              corum generationi ſint magis parati, Nec
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              etiam illorum vis arboribus, herbiſve exina­
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              nitur: ſteriles enim magis ſunt, montes cam­
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              pis, etiamſi ſint fertiliſſimi. </s>
              <s id="s.003614">Aqua etiam &
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              humidum ob accliuem ſitum magis defluunt
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              ex montibus, quorum copia in ſuperficie
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              agrorum, generatio metallorum impe­
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              ditur. </s>
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              <s id="s.003615">At dices: modò inter cauſas cur campi
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              metallica non gignant, enumeraſti, quòd
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              humidum abſumitur, modò humidi copiam
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              in eis rurſus metallicorum generationi ob­
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              ſtare cenſes. </s>
              <s id="s.003616">Et hercle vtrunque verum eſt:
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              nam humidum pingue, quò magis abun­
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              dat, eò fertilius redditur ſolum, non ſo­
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              lùm metallorum, ſed & plantarum: aqueum
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              autem impedit. </s>
              <s id="s.003617">Cauſa huius eſt, quòd
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              humidum generationi aptum, calidum
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              etiam eſſe oportet. </s>
              <s id="s.003618">Aqueum autem humi­
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              dum, frigidum eſt, & concoctioni con­
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              tumax. </s>
              <s id="s.003619">Ideò calidæ regiones, vbi abunda­
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              uerint aquis, omnes fertiliſſimæ: quoniam
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              aqueum humidum calore Solis celeriter in
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              pingue tranſint: in frigidis verò locis
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              aqua multa ſterilitatem parit, & agros re­
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              frigerat. </s>
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              Humidum
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              pingue gene­
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              rationi ido­
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              neum, a­
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              queum in­
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              utile.</s>
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              <s id="s.003621">Eadémque ratio fermè eſt in temporibus,
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              Nam Prata æſtate gaudent aquis: hyeme
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              autem tardiùs pullulare herbas, facit irri­
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              gatio aſſidua: itaque conſtat campos, ſi ad
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              montes comparentur, aquei humidi plus ha­
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              bere, & minùs pinguis. </s>
              <s id="s.003622">Itaque & montes
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              arborum, & vitium feraces, vix metallicis
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              abundare videbis, niſi in profundo, quòd
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              pingue humidum à plantis abſumatur: vbi
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              verò lapides maximi & ſolidi, humidum diu
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              ſaxis contentum, ac tenuiſſimum diſtillans,
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              concreſcit in nobiles gemmas. </s>
              <s id="s.003623">Et ob id
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              ſplendidiores gemmæ
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              inter duriſſi­
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              ma, & maxima ſaxa inueniuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.003624">Illud etiam
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              tot montium commodis ad metallicorum ge­
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              nerationem adiicitur, quòd montes vbi du­
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              centis, aut trecentis paſſibus effoderis, ad­
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              huc ſuper terra eſſe dicere te poſſis: atque
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              inde aquas à latere, & terram iam effoſſam
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              faciliùs deriuare ac transferre, In plano
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              rurſus hic labor duplicatus eſt: nec vt in
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              montibus ruinis locum licet patefacere, nec
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              facilè diuinare potes vbi metallica ia­
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              ceant, nec inuenta perſequi, vt in edito lo­
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              co, quoniam nullis ſignis à lateribus iuuari
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              potes. </s>
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              <s id="s.003625">His tot tantiſque cauſis planis pauci ope­
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              ram dant, etſi vbique ſint metallica: mon­
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              tibus plurimi excauandis incumbunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003626">Nam
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              labor vnus eſt, inueniſſe locum & genus me­
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              talli: alter longè maior, truncum fodinæ
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              ſcire. </s>
              <s id="s.003627">Hoc autem ex editiore loco cognouiſ­
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              ſe ſolùm, laborioſiſſimum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003628">Etenim vt al­
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              tius rem ipſam repetam, quum ſub terra (vt
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              dixi
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              )
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              paſſim aquæ riuuli fluant, ac rurſus
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              ſub aqua terra, in qua plerunque metallica
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              in planis iacent, rurſus etiam ſub terra il­
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              la aquam plerique eſſe exiſtimant, vt etiam
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              ſub imo maris aquas dulces aliqui eſſe
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              crediderint, quamvis difficili experimen­
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              to: aliáſque vt audio fruſtra tentatum Ve­
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              netiis, nondum conſtante quæſito, an ſub
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              priore aqua alia ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.003629">Cuius rei argumentum
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              mihi eſſe videtur, quòd homini etiam in
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              imo corporis venæ ſint. </s>
              <s id="s.003630">Et Arethuſam flu­
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              uium referunt ab Elide ſub Alphei nomine
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              venientem emergere in Sicilia iuxta Syracu­
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              ſas mari præteruectum. </s>
              <s id="s.003631">Sunt qui fontem A­
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              rethuſam vocent potius quam fluuium. </s>
              <s id="s.003632">Aquę
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              etiam inſulis dulces id perſuadere poſſunt.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.003633">Denique cùm in montium iugis aquam,
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              tum in imo etiam emergere videamus, quid
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              aliud de terra poſſumus coniectari? </s>
              <s id="s.003634">cùm
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              mons, ſeu terrâ ſit ſepultus, ſeu emineat,
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              eandem habeat rationem, in eóque indicio
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              hoc argumentum demonſtrat. </s>
              <s id="s.003635">Quid autem
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              prohibuerit, ne Venetiis aquam inuenerint
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              dulcem, non ſat ſcio. </s>
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            <p type="margin">
              <s id="s.003636">
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              An ſub aqua
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              prima quæ
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              ſub terra eſt,
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              alia ſit
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              aqua.</s>
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              <s id="s.003637">Sed ſunt qui etiam modicum aquæ dulcis
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              hauriant è mari, auctore Ariſtotele, nec fal­
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              ſo experimento. </s>
              <s id="s.003638">Demittitur enim vaſculum
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              cereum ſatis craſſum, & vndique occluſum,
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              quòd vbi diu in mari manſerit, aquam ad­
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              mittit, ſal non admittit, inde dulcis aqua,
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              & potui commoda extrahitur: nam aqua
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              dum tenuis eſt, ingreditur: ſal quòd terre­
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              ſtre ſit, prohibetur à cera. </s>
              <s id="s.003639">Inuentum refe­
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              runt quod ſalem trahat velut lactis pinguius
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              à coagulo, magno nauium commodo, ſi ve­
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              rum ſit, cùm ex ſalſa vbique dulcem aquam
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              efficere liceat. </s>
              <s id="s.003640">Neque valde mirum, ſalem
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              trahi ac cogi, cùm attractio in lacte (vt do­
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              cebimus)
                <expan abbr="nõ">non</expan>
              proprietate, ſed calore fiat. </s>
              <s id="s.003641">Dul­
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              cis igitur aqua tot modis ex ſalſa conficitur,
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              quot modis à ſale aqua purgari poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003642">Poteſt
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              autem tribus modis: ſi deſcendat, ſi cogatur,
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              ſi percoletur. </s>
              <s id="s.003643">Forſan & quartum quendam
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              modum licebit inuenire, ſcilicet, ſi actis
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              vis ſalis obtundatur. </s>
              <s id="s.003644">Sed in pauco forſan
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              poſſibile eſt, in multo fieri non poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.003645">Di­
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              ximus nunc, tum aliàs, quomodo percole­
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              tur: vt verò imum petat, longa quies facit,
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              ſed antea putreſcit: reliquum eſt igitur, vt </s>
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