Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556

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              <s id="N10A2C">Contra uituperant hos Euripidis uerſus.</s>
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            <p id="N10A2F" type="main">
              <s id="N10A31">Plutus deus ſapientibus, ſunt cætera</s>
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            <p id="N10A34" type="main">
              <s id="N10A36">Nugæ, ſimulque uerborum præſtigiæ.</s>
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              <s id="N10A3B">Item hos Theognidis, Te pulcherrime & ò placidiſsime Plute deorum
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              Dum teneam, poſsum uel malus eſſe bonus.</s>
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              <s id="N10A42">Inſectantur
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              Spartanum quod dixerit: pecuniæ uir, pau­
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              per nullus neque bonus eſt, neque honoratus. </s>
              <s id="N10A4B">Reprehendunt hæc Timo­
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              clis carmina.</s>
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              <s id="N10A52">Argentum & anima & ſanguis eſt mortalibus..</s>
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              <s id="N10A57">Cuius ſibi qui non congeſsit copiam,</s>
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            <p id="N10A5A" type="main">
              <s id="N10A5C">Vagatur ille uiuos inter mortuus.</s>
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            <p id="N10A5F" type="main">
              <s id="N10A61">Accuſant denique Menandrum quod ſcripſerit.</s>
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            <p id="N10A64" type="main">
              <s id="N10A66">Epicharmus eſſe prædicat Deos, aquam,</s>
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            <p id="N10A69" type="main">
              <s id="N10A6B">Ventoſque & ignem, terram, ſolem, ſydera.</s>
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            <p id="N10A6E" type="main">
              <s id="N10A70">At ipſe iudico eſſe Deos utiles</s>
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              <s id="N10A75">Aurum argentumque noſtrum, nanque ſi domi</s>
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            <p id="N10A78" type="main">
              <s id="N10A7A">Ponens tuæ locaueris hos, quicquid uoles</s>
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            <p id="N10A7D" type="main">
              <s id="N10A7F">Petas licet, tibi contingent omnia:</s>
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              <s id="N10A84">Ager, domus, ſeruique & opera argentea,</s>
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              <s id="N10A89">Nec non amici, iudices, teſtes, modo</s>
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              <s id="N10A8E">Largire, nam deos miniſtros poſsides.</s>
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              <s id="N10A93">Hæc præterea premunt argumenta,
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              foſsionibus agri
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                tur</expan>
              , quo circa quondam Italiæ
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              eſt lege, ne quis
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              cauſa ter
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              ram foderet, & agros illos uberrimos, ac uineta oliuetaque
                <expan abbr="corrũperet">corrumperet</expan>
              , ſyl­
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              uæ & nemora ſucciduntur, nam lignis infinitis opus eſt ad
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              ,
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              ad machinas, ad metalla excoquenda. </s>
              <s id="N10AB6">Syluis autem & nemoribus ſucciſis
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              exterminantur uolucres & beſtiæ,
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              pleræque homini cibus ſunt lau­
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              tus & ſuauis. </s>
              <s id="N10AC1">Venæ metallicæ lauantur, quæ lotura, quia uenenis inficit
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              riuos & fluuios, piſces aut necat, aut ex eis abigit. </s>
              <s id="N10AC6">Cum igitur incolæ re­
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              gionum propter agrorum, ſyluarum, nemorum, riuorum,
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              uaſti­
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              tatem incurrant in magnam difficultatem rerum, quæ ſuppeditant ad ui­
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              ctum, parandarum: propter lignorum
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              maiorem impenſam faciant
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              in ædificia extruenda, palàm ante oculos
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              eſt, plus in foſsione detri
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              menti eſſe, quàm in metallis emolumenti, quæ foſsione
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              . </s>
              <s id="N10AE3">Deinde
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              exemplis acriter pugnantes, contra metalla clamant,
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              quen­
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              que uirum uirtutibus
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              ea neglexiſſe: laudantque Biantem pro­
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              pterea quod iſta ludibria fortunæ ne ſua quidem putauerit, eius enim
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                triam</expan>
              Prienem cum cepiſſent hoſtes, & ſui ciues onuſti rebus precioſis de­
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              diſſent ſeſe in fugam, interrogatus à quodam cur nihil de ſuis bonis
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              efferret, reſpondit: omnia mea mecum porto. </s>
              <s id="N10B02">Et Socrates inquiunt acce
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              pit uiginti minas ad ſe miſſas ab Ariſtippo grato diſcipulo, ſed eas Dei
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              iuſſu aſpernatus eidem remiſit. </s>
              <s id="N10B09">Ariſtippus autem in hac re ſecutus præ­
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              ceptorem aurum ſpreuit, ac pro nihilo putauit. </s>
              <s id="N10B0E">Cum enim iter faceret u­
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              nà cum ſeruis, & ij præ auri pondere tardius irent, iuſsit eos tantum ipſi­</s>
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