Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              olim oleum Titorenſium in Phocide, colo­
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              re atque dulcedine Hiſpano præſtantius: vn­
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              de ad coquenda vnguenta ipſum ſolum ve­
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              lut rex habebatur. </s>
              <s id="s.006838">Omne igitur ſemen cùm
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              oleum emittat, eligitur quod vel copio­
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              ſum, vel optimum habet. </s>
              <s id="s.006839">Optimum ſim­
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              pliciter oliuæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006840">Quædam verò ad morbos,
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              vt lini, vel heliotropij. </s>
              <s id="s.006841">Copia præſtant
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              oliuæ, lini ſemen, nuces, amygdalæ, he­
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              liotropij ſemen, & rapæ, & henæ herbæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006842">Sed
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              & plura alia, quæ ob ignorantiam abiiciun­
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              tur: nam & nuclei omnes, vt ceraſi & pru­
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              ni, oleum continent. </s>
              <s id="s.006843">Octauo igitur loco
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              cortex phaſelli Benin adnumeretur. </s>
              <s id="s.006844">Atque
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              hæc de oleis compendij familiaris rei cau­
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              ſa, dicta ſint. </s>
              <s id="s.006845">Naſcitur & arbos in inſula
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              Portus ſancti, quæ prima eſt ab Hiſpa­
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              nia in Indiam tendentibus, fructum fe­
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              rens ceraſo perſimilem, ſed coloris cæru­
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              lei: exiſtimo eam ex genere ceraſi eſſe, ſed
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              regionum varietas efficit, vt illius lachry­
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              ma pro lacca in vſu ſit, admodum enim
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              rubet, ac ſplendet: digeritur in paſtillos,
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              creditúrque tum maximè antiqua firmare
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              dentes. </s>
              <s id="s.006846">Sed lachryma hæc vel ſpontè fluit,
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              vel etiam ſauciata arbore, quæ inferior eſt
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              prima.
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              Oleum ad­
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              mirabilis
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              naturæ.
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              <s id="s.006848">Oleum opti­
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              mum.</s>
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              Quæ copiam
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              olei emit­
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              tunt.</s>
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              Laccæ arbor.</s>
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              Iſatis incre­
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              dibilis merx.</s>
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              <s id="s.006852">Proximus huic è plantis colori honos eſt
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              iſatidi, quo cæruleo colore panni inficiun­
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              tur, Guadum vocat vulgus, nec pro vlla her­
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              ba tantum impenditur argenti: cùm ex tam
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              vili merce vectigal ad multa aureorum mil­
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              lia aſcendat. </s>
              <s id="s.006853">Vt verò hæc herba lucroſior,
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              ita pulcherrima omnium Lithoſpermon, in­
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              ter cuius folia ſemina, lapidea duritie, can­
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              dore margaritarum nitent. </s>
              <s id="s.006854">Cretenſe di­
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              co: nam Italicum ab hoc non parum de­
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              generat.
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              Lithoſpermi
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              pulchritudo.</s>
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              <s id="s.006856">Sed quæret forſan quiſpiam de palmarum
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              ligno, cur in fornicem incuruetur, quum
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              alia pondere preſſa flectantur in ſinum?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.006857">Vulgaris eſt fama, & tanti etiam miracu­
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              li Theophraſtum teſtem inuenio. </s>
              <s id="s.006858">Id verò
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              etiam cantheliis aſinis contingere, auctor
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              eſt Xenophon. </s>
              <s id="s.006859">Cauſam eſſe reor, quòd
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              prius flectatur, quam prematur: dum verò
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              iam curuata eſt, inflectitur ſurſum: habet
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              enim neruos, qui ad vnam partem incli­
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              nantur. </s>
              <s id="s.006860">Aut ſi modò ad vtramque partem
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              flecti poteſt, ob ſiccitatem id contingit, velut
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              & in coriis: nam pondus ſiccare poteſt pre­
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              mendo. </s>
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              Palma cur
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              in fornicem
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              incuruetur.</s>
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              <s id="s.006862">Plutarchus verò cenſet, quoniam ignea
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              vi polleat, irnitari pondere, atque ſiccatum
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              reparatis viribus contrahi: vel quia aëre ex­
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              cuſſo robuſtius fiat, & magis flectatur in
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              aduerſum. </s>
              <s id="s.006863">Atque vt ex multis vna fiat ſen­
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              tentia, lignum hoc quum pondere vexatur,
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              diſcutit, ſeu humidum, ſeu aqueum, ſeu
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              aërem: v unde breuius factum, retrahit ſe­
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              ipſum.
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              Sicomori li­
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              gnum quod
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              in aqua ſic­
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              catur, & non
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              in aëre.</s>
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              <s id="s.006865">Videtur enim ſimili ratione fieri hoc, ve­
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              lut & de ſycomoriligno, quòd in aëre nun­
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              quam ſiccatur, in alueis tamen fluminum
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              & aquarum gurgitibus celeriter. </s>
              <s id="s.006866">Nam
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              quum humido præpingui abundet, aëri re­
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              ſiſtit, ne ſiccetur: ab aqua autem multis
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              modis diſſipatur humidum, motu primùm
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              abradente, frigore verò partim cogente,
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              & experimente, partim congelante. </s>
              <s id="s.006867">Ipſum
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              verò lignum pulchrum eſt, ſolidum atque
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              nigrum, & ob id, ad multa opera vtile.
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              <s id="s.006868">Vtrunque igitur horum, à contrariis contra­
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              ria patitur. </s>
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              <s id="s.006869">Minore admiratione dignum eſt, quòd
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              ſtatuæ ſudent: nam ratio in promptu eſt,
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              quum humidum pingue, vi caloris ex­
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              preſſum, ſudoris imaginem præſter. </s>
              <s id="s.006870">Ob id
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              maximè ſudant, quæ ligno conſtant cedri,
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              oliuæ, vitis ac cupreſſi. </s>
              <s id="s.006871">Contingit hoc ma­
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              gis Auſtris flantibus, quòd humor ſit co­
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              pioſior, ac tenuior. </s>
              <s id="s.006872">At quæ in terra ſulphu­
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              rea, ac bituminoſa naſcuntur, ſi aërea ac
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              ignea ſubſtantia ſint, parúmque terræ, ac
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              aquæ contineant, quales ſunt alnus, abies,
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              pinus, piceáque dum franguntur, maximè
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              ſi iam putruerint ſcintillas igneas emitte­
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              re ſolent. </s>
              <s id="s.006873">Conſimili ratione cortices qua­
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              rundam adeò redduntur vetuſtate candidi
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              ac ſplendentes, vt nocte prunæ inſtar lu­
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              ceant. </s>
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              Ligneæ ſta­
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              tuæ
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              Ligna quæ
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              cùm
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                tur</expan>
              , ſcintil­
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              las igneas
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              emittunt.</s>
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              <s id="s.006876">Nec verebor inter plantarum miracula
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              reponere, quòd Theophraſtus in quarto re­
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              citat de fruticibus, herbam ab Indo allatam,
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              qua commanducata coïtum ſeptuagies ille
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              in die explere poſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.006877">Sitne hoc verum vel
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              non, nolim affirmare: quòd tantum eſt præ­
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              ſentis inſtituti, adiiciam, in Venere ſcili­
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              cet duo eſſe neceſſaria, flatum & ſemen. </s>
              <s id="s.006878">Er­
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              go vt in ſatyriaſi citra coëundi appetitum
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              immodicè tenditur veretrum, ita nihil pro­
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              hibet herbam eſſe, quæ guſtata idem effi­
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              ciat: quòd ſi ſenſim edatur, ſen­
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              ſim etiam ſemen procreabit. </s>
              <s id="s.006879">In­
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              di nunc, Bethel in ore, perpe­
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              tuò ferunt huius cauſa: quan­
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              quam non admodum ſalaces,
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              forſan repugnante loci natura,
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              quæ nimio calore illos eneruat.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.006880">Viride autem Veneri plurimum
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              prodeſſe videtur. </s>
              <s id="s.006881">Denigrat au­
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              tem dentes, ſi maſticetur. </s>
              <s id="s.006882">Ser­
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              pit eius planta vt hedera: fo­
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              lium lauro ſimile, quinque li­
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              neis, vt in figura vides, diſtinctum. </s>
              <s id="s.006883">Ma­
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              gnitudine palmum excedit, & ſapore lau­
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              rum ad vnguem refert, nerui interiores
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              margini, quàm medio propinquiores: ſyl­
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              ueſtri parte multum prominent: non er­
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              go malabathrum: nec Dioſcoridi nota
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              planta. </s>
              <s id="s.006884">Diligentius tamen eius explica­
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              tionem proſequutus ſum, quòd aſſumptum
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              illius folium copioſius, mirum in modum
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              hominem exhilaret: adeóque vehemen­
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              ter, vt inſtantis mortis curam omnem
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              tollat, ſenſu tamen ſtante. </s>
              <s id="s.006885">Hoc autem il­
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              li præcipuum: nam ſenſum ſi auferas, au­
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              feres & triſtitiam, & timorem, vt in
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              ebriis, ſtultis, & his qui halicacabum,
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              aut ſtrimoniæ fructus ederint. </s>
              <s id="s.006886">At ſtante
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              ſenſu, omnem poſſe abiicere curam, om­
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              némque timorem, hac mirum eſt, atque
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              rarum. </s>
              <s id="s.006887">Turcæ huius cauſa opio vti di­
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              cuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.006888">Sunt qui croco hoc tribuunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006889">Iti­
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              dem Indi ad Venerem excitandam Am­
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              phiam medicamento, quod Hiſpani opium
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              eſſe dicunt, vti ſolent. </s>
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              Herba quæ
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              coitum ad
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              70. vices in
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              die excitat. </s>
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              Folium Be­
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              thel.</s>
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              Amphiam.</s>
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              <s id="s.006893">Quærunt igitur iurè meritò quidam,
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              quomodo meconium, cùm immodicè ſit
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              frigidum, atque adeò vt occidat, poſſit </s>
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