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              <pb o="315" file="337" n="337" rhead="DE ARCHITEC. LIB. VIII."/>
            diuerſa faciunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17191" xml:space="preserve">Diodor{us} Sicul{us} lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17192" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">I. </emph>
            dicit ab ijs, qui inſulam Meroen habitant,
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            vocari Aſtapum, id eſt aquam è tenebris venientem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17193" xml:space="preserve">At Plini{us}, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17194" xml:space="preserve">Solin{us} di-
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            ctis locis circa Meroen diuiſum Nilum aſſerunt læuo alueo Astaboren, dextro ve-
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            rò Aſtuſapen nominari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17195" xml:space="preserve">Quod veror hic Vitruui{us} Astaſobam pro Aſtapo, ſiue
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            Aſtapode dixerit, mirũ eſſe non debet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17196" xml:space="preserve">nam & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17197" xml:space="preserve">Strabo Astoſabam à nonnullis ſcri-
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            bit appellari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17198" xml:space="preserve">Porrò autem Astoſabam apud Vitruuium, an apud Strabonem Aſta-
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            ſobam ſcribendum ſit, an diuerſos ſequuti ſint autores, non mihi liquet.</s>
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          </p>
          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17200" xml:space="preserve">Peruenit per montes ad cataracten.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17201" xml:space="preserve">] Cataracten tradit Strab. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17202" xml:space="preserve">lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17203" xml:space="preserve">vlt.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17204" xml:space="preserve">eſſe ad medium ferè flumen petroſum quoddam ſupercilium, in ſuperiore parte pla-
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            num, vt flumen recipere poßit, deſinens verò in præcipitium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17205" xml:space="preserve">In Nilo eſt eiuſmodi
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            quidam loc{us}, vbi præcipitans ruit poti{us}, quàm fluit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17206" xml:space="preserve">Ammian{us} Marcellin{us}
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            lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17207" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">XXII. </emph>
            præruptos ſcopulos interpretatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17208" xml:space="preserve">Meminerunt Seneca quæstionum na-
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            turalium lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17209" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">IIII. </emph>
            cap. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">II. </emph>
            Plini{us} lib. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">V. </emph>
            cap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17212" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">IX. </emph>
            Philoſtrat{us}, quem alij Lucia-
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            num existimant, vitæ Apollonij Tyanei lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17213" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">VI. </emph>
            Cicero certè in fragmento lib. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">VI. </emph>
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            de Repub. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17215" xml:space="preserve">ſcribit catadupa nominari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17216" xml:space="preserve">Niſi quis nouißimi tantum cataractæ parti
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            extremæ hoc nominis tribuendum existimet, quòd ita appellent Herodot{us} libro ſe-
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            cundo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17217" xml:space="preserve">Aristides in Aegyptia oratione.</s>
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          <p style="it">
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17219" xml:space="preserve">Ex Mauritania autem caput Nili profluere.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17220" xml:space="preserve">] Aristoteles lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17221" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">I. </emph>
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            Meteorologicon, autor eſt prima Nili fluenta ex Argyro monte decurrere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17222" xml:space="preserve">Herodo-
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            t{us} lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17223" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">II. </emph>
            ignorari ait vnde oriatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17224" xml:space="preserve">Pauſani{as} in Atticis tradit ex Atlante
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            monte manare aquam turbidam, ad ipſum\’ fontem apparere Crocodilos cubitis
              <lb/>
            haud minores, qui ad hominum acceſſum ſtatim mergantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17225" xml:space="preserve">Multis argumentum
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            præbere eam aquam ex arenis rurſ{us} ſcaturientem Nilum Aegyptijs efficere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17226" xml:space="preserve">Idem
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            in Corinthiacis ait non deeſſe qui ex Euphrate terra condito, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17227" xml:space="preserve">poſtea ſupra Ae-
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            thiopiam exiente Nilum effici existiment. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17228" xml:space="preserve">De Nilo hæc ferè à Parrhaſio tradun-
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            tur, Durim Samium putare eum in Lybia caput attollere, Parmenonem By ɀan-
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            tium Iouem eum Aegypti vocare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17229" xml:space="preserve">Iouis enim appellatione à priſcis Aegyptijs cul-
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            tum, inde & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17230" xml:space="preserve">Pindarum epitheto μρόνιογ, hoc eſt Saturnium nominare, quòd exun-
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            dans imbrium vicem exhibeat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17231" xml:space="preserve">In Aegypto vrbem eſſe ei{us} nominis, ſacram amnis
              <lb/>
            ſedem ex Hecatæo Hermippum dicere pri{us} fuiſſe nominatum Oceanum, Aegy-
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            ptum, Aeton, Tritonem, demum Nilum, à Cyclopis filio Nilo Aegypti rege, cui au{us}
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            patern{us} fuerit Tantal{us}.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17233" xml:space="preserve">Ibique naſcuntur Ichneumones.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17234" xml:space="preserve">] Ichneumon in Aegypto naſcitur
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            animal felis magnitudine, ſed ſigura non admodum à mure abhorrente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17235" xml:space="preserve">Habet in-
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            ternecinum cum angue bellum, nec pri{us} hoſtem aggreditur, quàm ſocios vocet, & </s>
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            limo obducto contraict{us}, morſ{us} \’ ſeſe loricet In dimicatione caudam attollens, ict{us}
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            irritos auerſ{us} excipit, donec obliquo capite ſpeculat{us} inuadat in fauces. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17237" xml:space="preserve">Debellat
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17238" xml:space="preserve">Crocodilum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17239" xml:space="preserve">Autores ſunt Aristoteles de naturali hiſtoria lib. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">IX. </emph>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17241" xml:space="preserve">Plini{us}
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            lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17242" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">VIII. </emph>
            cap. </s>
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              <emph style="sc">XXIIII. </emph>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17244" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">XXV. </emph>
            </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s17245" xml:space="preserve">Crocodili.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17246" xml:space="preserve">] Crocodili naturam deſcribit his verbis Ammian{us} Marcelli-
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            n{us} lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17247" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="sc">XXII. </emph>
            de Aegypto loquens, Inter aquatiles besti{as} Crocodil{us} vbique per
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            eos tract{us} abundat, exitiale quadrupes, malum aſſuetum elementis ambob{us}, lin-
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            gua carens, maxillam ſuperiorem commouens ſolam, ordine dentium pectinato, per-
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            nicioſis morſib{us}, quicquid tetigerit, pertinaciter tenens, oua edens anſerinis </s>
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