Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              thryalides prolucernis. </s>
              <s id="s.003900">Videbuntur hæc qui­
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              buſdam incredibilia dictu quæ tamen non
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              ſolùm vera, ſed etiam neceſſaria ſunt, ac fa­
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              cilia inuentu. </s>
              <s id="s.003901">Nam cùm omnes fermè lapi­
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              des igni præſertim haud diuturno reſiſtant,
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              ſquamoſi plerunque nentur ob fila. </s>
              <s id="s.003902">Si igitur
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              neas iam igni materiam contumacem, map­
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              pas, mantilia, & thryalides efficere licebit,
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              ignibus non obnoxias. </s>
              <s id="s.003903">Texi verò quæcun­
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              que nentur, quis dubitat? </s>
              <s id="s.003904">vnde etiam non
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              ſolum ex lino & canabe, ſed ex ſparto quo­
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              que, ſeu geniſta mappæ conficiuntur.
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              <s id="s.003905">Nunc geniſta vtimur ſolùm ad verrendum:
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              ſed ſi artifex non deſit, vtilis eſt etiam ad
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              conficienda lintea: quicquid enim ductile
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              eſt, nere licet: quòd nere licet, licet & texere.
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              <s id="s.003906">Ductile verò eſt, quicquid humido conſtat
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              tenaci, ac minimè fragili. </s>
              <s id="s.003907">Alumini verò
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              plumæ non tantum ineſt ſucci, vt nere
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              poſſis. </s>
              <s id="s.003908">Neque igitur pro miraculo ducen­
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              dum, quòd turris lignea ignibus immiſſis
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              extiterit incorrupta, hoc aluminis genere
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              inſperſa,
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              Succus atris
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              & potens.</s>
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              Alumen Ro­
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              chæ, & eius
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              vires.</s>
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              Alumen
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              Scaiolæ.
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              <s id="s.003912">Alumen plu­
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              mæ.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.003913">Ellychnia
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              quæ haud
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              conſumun­
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              tur, & map­
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              pæ, ab igne.</s>
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              Geniſta vti­
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              lis ad confi­
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              cienda lin­
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              tea.</s>
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              Bituminis
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              genera 12.
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              nobiliora.</s>
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              <s id="s.003916">Sed nec minor virtus bitumini quàm
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              alumini: verùm non vnum genus illius, ſed
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              eſt quòd propriè aſphaltum dicitur, & piſ­
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              ſa ſphaltum, & napta, Gagates, Ampelites,
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              Maltha, Thracius lapis, carbones foſſiles,
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              ſuccinum, ambra, petroleum, camphora. </s>
              <s id="s.003917">Et
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              de omnibus ſatis conuenit, præterquam de
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              camphora, ſunt qui caphuram vocent: ma­
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              num do, in ius non voco, de re ipſa eſt du­
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              bitatio: nomen tibi, quicunque es adeò
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              faſtidioſus, concinnandum relinquo. </s>
              <s id="s.003918">Cùm
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              igitur in ea ligna inueniant, lachrymam
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              arboris, Capar nomine, quæ in inſula Bu­
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              tei, aliàs Zebut vocata (hæc ab æquinoctia­
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              li Boream verſus partibus quinque cum
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              quadrante diſtat, à Fortunatis centum octo­
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              ginta ſex ) prouenit, potius quàm bitumen
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              eſſe credunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003919">Veruntamen ſi ſuccinum ar­
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              deat, quòd bitumen proculdubio eſt, aqua­
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              que, madida mappa fumus excipiatur, cam­
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              phoram olet. </s>
              <s id="s.003920">Sed medico non multum re­
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              fert hoc ſcire, ſed quòd camphora, ſuccinum
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              & ambra, è bituminis genere ſint. </s>
              <s id="s.003921">Atque
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              ea de cauſa etiam ſi quid horum fluat ex ar­
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              boribus, nil prohibet quin etiam ei ſimile
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              in terræ viſceribus generetur. </s>
              <s id="s.003922">Sed videtur
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              camphora ex arboribus primam originem
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              ducere. </s>
              <s id="s.003923">Non tamen adeò alba natura eſt, ſed
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              deſtillatione talis fit. </s>
              <s id="s.003924">Deſtillatio enim deal­
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              bare ſolet, non tantùm quia ſordes omnes
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              detrahat, ſed quia ſubſtantiam raram efficit,
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              atque ideò aëri peruiam. </s>
              <s id="s.003925">Camphora igitur
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              eſt immodicè ſicca, adeò vt in ſinu virginum
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              geſtata, iuuenes ad Venerem reddat impo­
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              tentes. </s>
              <s id="s.003926">Eadem ſiccat vlcera, & dealbat; te­
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              nuiſſimæ enim eſt ſubſtantiæ, hiſque de cau­
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              ſis etiam ſomnum arcet. </s>
              <s id="s.003927">Gagatem vocat
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              vulgus ambram nigram. </s>
              <s id="s.003928">Fiunt globuli pro
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              precibus: ſplendet & lucidus eſt, adeò vt à
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              pluribus inter lapides numeretur: niger co­
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              los, trahitque paleas: ex Hiſſpania peregri­
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              ni imagines ad nos ferunt: ardet, hoc enim
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              omni bituminis generi commune eſt, Fer­
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              tur virgines, epotus cum aqua, non cogere
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              ad migendum, corruptas cogere: res pro­
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              pior fabulæ, quàm veriſimili. </s>
              <s id="s.003929">Quaſdam ma­
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              gis irritare, atque eas, quæ vitiatæ ſunt, nihil
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              prohibet. </s>
              <s id="s.003930">Nam cùm collum veſicæ collo
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              vteri inſeratur, quæcunque corruptæ ſunt,
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              vexantur magis ab his, quæ moleſtiam ve­
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              ſicæ afferre conſuerunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003931">Ferunt etiam ac­
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              cenſum oleo reſtingui, non aqua: id ſupe­
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              riùs declarauimus. </s>
              <s id="s.003932">Bitumini enim hoc ge­
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              nerale eſt, ac proprium fermè: ſed non
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              ab omni aqua tutus is eſt ignis, nec ab
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              omni oleo extinguitur: multa enim aqua
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              omnem ignem ſuffocat, & paucum oleum
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              nullum extinguit, vt quaſi hæc per meta­
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              phoram dicta videri poſſint. </s>
              <s id="s.003933">Creditum eſt
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              etiam, nec fruſtrà, comitiales excitare, vt
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              ſuccinum. </s>
              <s id="s.003934">Sed & antiqui ſcripſerunt, illum
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              prouocare morbum: poteſtque vtrunque
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              facere. </s>
              <s id="s.003935">Vtrique cauſa communis eſt caliditas
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              modera, tenuitas ac ſiccitas. </s>
              <s id="s.003936">Porrò quod
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              pingue eſt, etiam odoratum. </s>
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              Camphora
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              quid ſit, &
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              vires.</s>
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              Gagates.</s>
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              <s id="s.003939">De ſuccino magna ad hanc vſque diem
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              contentio fuit: bitumen tamen eſt, & pin­
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              guedo quædam terræ à maris æſtu. </s>
              <s id="s.003940">Copio­
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              ſum piſcatur in Sudinis Pruſſiæ, cùm herba
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              quæ illi concreſcit pulegio ſimili. </s>
              <s id="s.003941">Quòd ſi
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              etiam à lachryma herbarum, aut arborum
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              duceret originem, bitumen tamen eſſet pin­
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              guedine maris, & terrarum coactum, ac il­
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              lorum calore temperatum. </s>
              <s id="s.003942">Eius plura ſunt
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              genera. </s>
              <s id="s.003943">Candidum precioſiſſimum, guſtu
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              dulce, & optimè olens, adeò vt ſuffitum in
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              conclauibus contra peſtem ( iuuat enim ) ad
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              tertiam vſque diem conclaue olere bene fa­
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              ciat. </s>
              <s id="s.003944">Omne enim bene olens dum ſuffitur,
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              vapores abſumendo corruptos, aërem ab
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              omni vitio liberat: liberant ergo magis, quæ
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              magis fragrant, & quæ tardius conſumun­
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              tur: quæ verò calida & ſicca ſunt, vapores
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              celerius abſumunt. </s>
              <s id="s.003945">Ob id magnus ignis præ­
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              ſtantiſſimum eſt, auxilium aduerſus peſtilen­
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              tentem aëris ſtatum, vt etiam flabella: vi­
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              tiant enim aërem vapores, tum natura loci
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              ex quo eleuantur, tum quia Solis radios pe­
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              netrare prohibent. </s>
              <s id="s.003946">Ob id referunt in Ger­
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              mania vallem Ioachimicam cùm ob ſyluas
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              denſas, & ſtagna inhabitabilis eſſet, deriua­
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              tis aquis in cuniculos ac foſſas,
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              ne­
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              moribus, ſalubrem factam eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.003947">Itaque nil mi­
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              rum eſt, duplici auxilio flagrans ſuccinum
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              aërem emendare, tum quia ſiccum tum quia
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              bene olens. </s>
              <s id="s.003948">Ita videntur bis olim Athenæ
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              ignis beneficio à duobus medicis Hippocra­
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              te, & Acrone peſte liberatæ, flammis ſcili­
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              cet beneolentium lignorum, non quidem
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              mediocribus, ſed maximis. </s>
              <s id="s.003949">A mediocribus
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              enim ignibus, & minimè odorata materia
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              ſuccenſis, tantum abeſt, vt peſtilens aër
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              emendetur, tum magis ſi beneficium vento­
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              rum abſit, vt etiam vehementer exacerbe­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.003950">Quamobrem Thucydides refert, cùm ob
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              multitudinem cadauera rogis imponeren­
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              tur, non parum auctam peſtilentiam.
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              <s id="s.003951">Manifeſtum eſt igitur, eiſdem penè cauſis
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              ſuccinum eidem morbo medicamentis im­
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              miſtum, plurimùm conferre. </s>
              <s id="s.003952">Miſcetur
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              enim aut propter odorem, aut ſiccandi cau­
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              ſa, aut, quòd euidentius eſt auxilium in eo,
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              attrahendi: trahit enim omnia leuia, paleas,
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              feſtucas, ramenta tenuia metallorum, & ozi­
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              mi folia, perperàm contradicente Theophra­
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              ſto. </s>
              <s id="s.003953">Cauſa eſt huius, quòd humidum habeat
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              pingue & glutinoſum, quo emiſſo ad leuia </s>
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