Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              non omnia quæ maximo cum periculo ha­
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              bentur, & difficillimè, optima ſint. </s>
              <s id="s.006159">Auxit
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              hanc opinionem ſuperſtitio gentis, quæ ( vt
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              dixi ) maxima ſemper fuit & ruditas: nam
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              nullus populus adeò à diſciplinis abhorruit
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              vt Iudaicus, totus in ceremonias ac legem
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              intentus. </s>
              <s id="s.006160">Neque ergo mirum tantùm po­
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              tuiſſe Baaram, nam nec tutum omninò eſt
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              nunc napellum effodere. </s>
              <s id="s.006161">Compara modò
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              ſpeciem plantarum, & regiones, & alimen­
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              ta, quid probabilius eſſe poteſt quàm, quòd
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              miraculi loco hucuſque, aut fabulæ habi­
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              tum eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.006162">Nihil mirum verò ali plantam bi­
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              tumine, nam & ſulphure alitur. </s>
              <s id="s.006163">Narrat Ari­
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              ſtoteles, in ſulphureis fontibus herbas puſil­
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              las gigni: flantibus enim ventis ab ære exci
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              dit fæs, quam vocant auripigmentum, ea pu­
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              treſcit, & ideo herba oritur. </s>
              <s id="s.006164">Propagantur
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              enim plantæ quinque modis, ſemine, radi­
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              ce, ſtolonibus, ablaqueatione ac putredine,
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              quam caſum meritò poſſumus appellare. </s>
              <s id="s.006165">Se­
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              mine quidem pleræque, vt abies & larix: ra­
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              dice, vt glycyrrhiza ac lilium. </s>
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              Lymphaticæ
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              plantæ.</s>
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              Baara radix
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              admirabilis.</s>
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              Herbæ in
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              aquis ſul­
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              phureis naſ­
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              centes.
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              <s id="s.006169">Modi gene­
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              rationis
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                tarum</expan>
              .
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              <s id="s.006170">Liliarum hi­
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              ſtoria.</s>
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              <s id="s.006171">Eſt autem lilio tanta viuacitas, vt ſurculi
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              eius ſuſpenſi radicem emittant. </s>
              <s id="s.006172">Exiſtimat
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              autem Theophraſtus lachrymam cogi, & ex
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              lachryma propagari: quod verius eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006173">Nodi
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              quoque huius plantæ ſub camino ſuſpenſi,
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              abſque foliis etiam, inde ſiccati obruuntur
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              fæce rubentis vini, ſepultique in ſimo cum
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              eadem fæce flores edunt purpureos. </s>
              <s id="s.006174">Seruati
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              quoque botri in vaſis fictilibus, vel toto an­
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              no quum aqua tepida perfuſi fuerint, flo­
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              rent. </s>
              <s id="s.006175">Neque id mirum: cauſa enim omnium
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              vna eſt, humidum ſcilicet valde pingue. </s>
              <s id="s.006176">In­
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              dicio eſt, quòd in cubiculis flores quaſi toto
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              menſe ſeruantur, & quòd lenta quaſi humo­
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              ris ſubſtantia eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006177">Pulcherrimus flos hic vel
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              ipſo Deo teſte: candidiſſimus ſpontè. </s>
              <s id="s.006178">Sed &
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              iridis flos in Italia quandoque candidus.
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              <s id="s.006179">Quædam plantæ omnibus modis propagan­
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              tur, vt olea & ficus, quæ ſola inter nobilioris
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              fructus plantas, non floret. </s>
              <s id="s.006180">Sed ſpontè naſci
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              omnes plantas poſſe docuimus, quoniam
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              concoctio vbique & ſola anima ſtirpes in­
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              digere videntur. </s>
              <s id="s.006181">Sol autem anima eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006182">Surcu­
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              lo prouenit ſalix, ſed & vitis. </s>
              <s id="s.006183">Ablaqueatio­
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              nis genus eſt, & peculiare quoddam viti,
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              quum ſepelitur in biennium truncus, effuſa­
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              que radice à priore præſcinditur. </s>
              <s id="s.006184">Idem fieri
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              docent veteres ex arbore in arborem. </s>
              <s id="s.006185">Con­
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              ſtat igitur pingui humido nutriri plantas,
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              quod & inferiùs docebimus. </s>
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              <s id="s.006186">Sed vt ad odorata reuertar, lilia, nardus &
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              crocus ex eorum ſunt genere. </s>
              <s id="s.006187">Italica nardus
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              ſuffrutex eſt foliis roriſmarini longioribus,
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              anguſtioribus, craſſiuſculis, mollioribus, odo­
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              ratis: flos paruus admodum inter cæruleum
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              ac purpureum. </s>
              <s id="s.006188">Truncus & rami lignoſi, vi­
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              ret hyeme: hæc ſi ſit grauior, moritur. </s>
              <s id="s.006189">Ea
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              tamen quam vocamus Indicam, alterius ge­
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              neris eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006190">Nardus enim illa non hæc ſed plan­
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              ta ſui generis, odoris ſuauitate nomen ade­
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              pta: caret enim ſpica. </s>
              <s id="s.006191">Communia omnibus
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              folia anguſta ob ſiccitatem, odorque iucun­
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              dus. </s>
              <s id="s.006192">Eadem cauſa eſt omnibus plantis folia
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              amittendi frigus ipſum: ob id in frigidis re­
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              gionibus obducta ramis & trunco palea, ra­
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              dicibus equi fimo, tota arbore in hypocauſto
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              collocata, non ſolùm illarum ſeruari nihil
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              mirum eſt, folia ne decidant, ſed arbores, &
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              fructus edere. </s>
              <s id="s.006193">Seruantur & ſpontè calidio­
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              ribus, ſiccioribuſque plantis etiam apud nos
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              folia (vt dixi) nardo, rorimarino, ſaluiæ, iu­
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              nipero, lauro, cupreſſo: buxo verò ob ſolam
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              vehementem ſiccitatem, mediocremque ca­
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              liditatem, amara enim eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006194">Sed in India, quòd
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              calidiſſima ſit regio, nulli arbori folia deci­
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              dunt, præterquam ſiliquæ, quam vocamus
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              caſſiam. </s>
              <s id="s.006195">Hanc conſtat cùm radices mittat
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              ſubtus ad aquam vſque, natura eſſe frigi­
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              dam, & humidam triplici ratione: exhau­
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              ſerit enim copioſius humidum, abeſt pluri­
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              mùm à Solis calore radix, & frigore aquæ
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              quam tangit, perfrigeratur. </s>
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              Nardus.</s>
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              <s id="s.006197">Vt verò ex foliorum natura differentiæ
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              ſumantur in plantis, earum quinque ſunt
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              genera. </s>
              <s id="s.006198">Quædam enim perpetua, ſed non ea­
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              dem virent fronde, velut laurus, & me­
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              dicæ mali omnes ſpecies. </s>
              <s id="s.006199">Succreſcentibus
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              enim aliis, primæ decidunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006200">Aliæ eadem ſem­
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              per fronde virent, vt palma eſt: eſtque id
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              rariſſimum. </s>
              <s id="s.006201">Quædam ſemper virent, at non
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              eiſdem foliis neque ramis, vt ſaluia & ai­
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              zoum. </s>
              <s id="s.006202">Nonnullæ, vt ceraſus iiſdem manenti­
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              bus foliis & ramis frondem amittunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006203">Quæ­
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              dam etiam truncis exuuntur, vt fœniculus.
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              <s id="s.006204">E quibus quædam prorſus intereunt, vt
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              cucurbita. </s>
              <s id="s.006205">Tot igitur genera accepiſſe
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              oportet. </s>
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              Folia arbo­
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              ribus cur de­
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              cidant.</s>
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              <s id="s.006207">Sed vt ad odorata redeam: croco radix
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              bulboſa, copioſa, viuax, folia porracea, ſed
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              adeò anguſta vt capillata dici poſſint. </s>
              <s id="s.006208">Cau­
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              lis maculoſus: flores coloris vinoſi, colchicis
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              ſimiles in quorum medio ſtamina croci
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              flammea ſurgunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006209">Erat & olim balſamus
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              in pretio. </s>
              <s id="s.006210">Conſtat fuiſſe arbuſtum ſanſuci
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              quidem folio, atque ex eodem genere fer­
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              mè, nec vlla res propior, iaſemino planta
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              non valde abſimili. </s>
              <s id="s.006211">Sed periiſſe arbuſta om­
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              nia penitus, affirmat Petrus Martyr Ange­
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              rius ciuis noſter, legationis vice functus pro
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              regibus Hiſpaniarum apud Sultanum Ægy­
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              pti dominum, annis abhinc penè quinqua­
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              ginta. </s>
              <s id="s.006212">Referunt alij adeò propagatum, vt
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              paſſim in hortis Chairi habeatur. </s>
              <s id="s.006213">Sed cur
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              Angerius regibus ſuis, quibus opus inſcri­
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              bit, mentiatur, aut in re tanti momenti oſci­
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              tauerit, non video. </s>
              <s id="s.006214">Illud ſatis conſtat om­
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              nium teſtimonio, etiam eorum qui propa­
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              gatum eſſe volunt, iam ab eo tempore ne­
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              que fructum, neque lignum, nedum ſuc­
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              cum illum celebratiſſimum ad nos defer­
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              ri: vnde verum balſamum interiiſſe exiſti­
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              mandum eſt, ſuppoſitum verò eius loco plan­
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              tam aliam, incolarum ambitione, vel aua­
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              ritia. </s>
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              Balſamum.</s>
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              <s id="s.006216">Porrò iaſemini flos candidiſſimus eſt at­
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              que odoratus, alius cœleſtis, luteus alius,
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              vidiſſe me memini. </s>
              <s id="s.006217">Vere florere cum roſis,
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              aliiſque coronariis ſolet: vidi tamen qui
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              Septembri menſe, ex Hiſpania aduectum.
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              <s id="s.006218">Frutex eſt, ſed diſtentus, & pertractus, alli­
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              gatuſque: quamvis exilis, arbores æquat ma­
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              gnitudine: neque tamen è ſerpentium ge­
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              nere eſt, cùm ei non ſint capreoli, vt viti,
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              brioniæ, cucurbitæ, neque radicoſa arbos,
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              vt hedera. </s>
              <s id="s.006219">Vnde facilè in erectam arborem
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              cura non magna atque elegantem tranſire
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              poſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.006220">Folio viridi, molli, tenui, ſubnigro, </s>
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