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

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              Quocirca Damaſippus Horatianus carpens
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              maximi æſtiman­
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              tem diuitias inquit:</s>
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              <s id="N10F0B">Quid ſimile iſti</s>
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              <s id="N10F10">Græcus Ariſtippus? </s>
              <s id="N10F13">qui ſeruos proijcere aurum</s>
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              <s id="N10F18">In media iuſsit Libya, quia tardius irent</s>
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              <s id="N10F1D">Propter onus ſegnes, uter eſt inſanior horum?</s>
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              <s id="N10F22">Inſanit enim qui pluris facit diuitias, quàm uirtutes. </s>
              <s id="N10F25">Inſanit etiam qui
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              eaſdem reſpuit, ac pro nihilo ducit, cum liceat ipſis bene uti. </s>
              <s id="N10F2A">Quod
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              idem Ariſtippus aliàs aurum ab nauigio proiecit in mare, animo magno
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              & prudenti eam rem egit. </s>
              <s id="N10F35">Siquidem cum aduerteret eſſe piratarum ſca­
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              pham, in qua uehebatur, timuit de uita ſua, numerauitque aurum, & cum
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              id ſponte eieciſſet in mare, tanquam feciſſet inuitus, ingemuit: ſed poſte­
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              aquam euaſiſſet ex periculo, dixit: ipſum aurum perijſſe ſatius eſt, quàm
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              me perijſſe eius cauſa. </s>
              <s id="N10F40">Verum eſto, Philoſophi quidam & Anacreon
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              Teius contempſerint aurum & argentum, Anaxagoras etiam Clazome­
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              nius fundos, qui oues alerent, deſeruit: & Crates Thebanus cum moleſte
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              ferret ſe rei familiaris, aliarumque curas ſuſtinere, & his animum ſuum in
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              contemplando diſtrahi, bonis, quæ ualerent octo talenta, relictis, atque
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              ſumpto pallio & pera pauper omnem curam, cogitationem, operam ad
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              philoſophiam
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              . </s>
              <s id="N10F53">Num quod iſti philoſophi hæc ſpreuerint, omnes
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              alij pecuariam rem non curarunt? </s>
              <s id="N10F58">non coluerunt agros? </s>
              <s id="N10F5B">non habitarunt
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              domos? </s>
              <s id="N10F60">certe multi contrà cum diuitijs affluerent præclare in ſtudijs ſci­
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              entiæ cognitionisque rerum diuinarum &
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              uerſati ſunt, ut Ari­
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              ſtoteles, Cicero, Seneca. </s>
              <s id="N10F6B">Sed Phocioni non erat
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              , aurum ab Alex­
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              andro ad ſe miſſum accipere. </s>
              <s id="N10F74">Si enim eo uti uoluiſſet, tam rex quàm ipſe
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              incurriſſet in odium offenſionemque populi Athenienſis: qui populus
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              poſtea in uirum illum bonum ingratus fuit: nam eum
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              ad hoc, ut
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              biberet cicutam. </s>
              <s id="N10F85">Quid autem M. Curio, & Fabricio Luſcino minus con­
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              ueniens, quàm aurum ab hoſtibus accipere? </s>
              <s id="N10F8A">qui his machinis ſperabant
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              eos poſſe labefactari, aut ſuis ciuibus in odium uenire uolebant, ut ipſis
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              Romanis inter ſe diſsidentibus rempub. </s>
              <s id="N10F91">funditus euerterent. </s>
              <s id="N10F94">Sed Lycur
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              gus debuerat auro & argento utendi præcepta tradere Spartanis,
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              res
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              per ſe bonas tollere de medio. </s>
              <s id="N10F9F">Babytacenſes uero quis non uidet homi­
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              nes fuiſſe amentes & inuidos? </s>
              <s id="N10FA4">poterant enim auro mercari ea quibus in­
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              digebant: uel ipſum donare finitimis populis, ut eos ſibi donis benefici­
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              is que deuincirent. </s>
              <s id="N10FAB">Poſtremo Scytarchæ ſolo auro argentique uſu damnato,
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              auaritia ſe non prorſus abdicarunt, quod auarus etiam ſit aliorum bono­
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              rum poſſeſſor, ſi eis non utitur. </s>
              <s id="N10FB2">Nunc
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              eſt ad
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              , qui­
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              bus res foſsiles iactantur. </s>
              <s id="N10FBF">Itaque aurum & argentum primò uocant peſtes
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                <expan abbr="hominũ">hominum</expan>
              , quod poſſeſſoribus interitus & exitij cauſa ſint: hoc autem mo­
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              do quæ tandem res quam poſsidemus, peſtis humani generis non dice­
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              tur? </s>
              <s id="N10FCB">an equus? </s>
              <s id="N10FCE">an ueſtis? </s>
              <s id="N10FD1">an denique aliud ſimile? </s>
              <s id="N10FD4">Vectus autem in equo
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              inſigni, aut uiator bene ueſtitus cauſa latroni fuerit, ut ab eo occideretur,
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              num igitur in equis non uehimur, ſed pedibus iter facimus, quia prædo
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              cædem fecit ut raperet equum? </s>
              <s id="N10FDD">aut num ueſtiti non prodimus? </s>
              <s id="N10FE0">ſed nudi, </s>
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