Borro, Girolamo, De motu gravium et levium, 1575

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              <s id="s.000052">BENEDICTVS TITIVS
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              ROBERTO F. DVLCISSIMO.
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              S. P. D.</s>
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              <s id="s.000053">Tametsi illud maximè tibi propoſitum eſſe de
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              bet, Roberte fili, vt exactam iuriſciuilis faculta­
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              tem, & ſcientiam, cui nunc in Piſani iſta gymna­
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              ſij luce operam nauas, conſequare; ego tamen ita
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              ſemper exiſtimaui, oportere eum, qui iuriſcons.
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              <s id="s.000054">futurus ſit, non rabula de foro, plurimis, atque
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              optimis artibus ornatum eſſe; quo factum eſt, vt
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              teneriori adhuc ætate exquiſitius te iis literis inſtituerim, quibus ad
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              humanitatem informamur, ac deinde annis procedentibus tuo ipſe
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              inſtinctu, necnon aliqua mea cohortatione ad philoſophiam, quæ
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              de moribus docet, quæque rerum naturam perſcrutatur, animum
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              appuleris, in qua quantum profeceris, niſi tui te fallit amor, facilè
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              tibi erit iudicare: Ego certè, quod parentis fuit amantiſſimi, ac filii
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              laudum ſitientiſſimi, cumulatè præſtiti; vt ſi quid aut temporis, aut
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              pecuniarum iacturę factum ſit, eius in te omnis culpa reſideat. </s>
              <s id="s.000055">At­
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              que vt intelligas me meas in te omnes cogitationes libenter conſume
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              re ſolere, nec de re quapiam magis laborare, quam vt iis virtutibus
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              excellas, quæ homines ex vulgi numero eximere conſueuerunt; mit­
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              to ad te HIERONYMI BORRII librum, quem de grauium,
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              & leuium motu præcellens ille philoſophus conſcriptum tamquam
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                <expan abbr="teſtẽ">teſtem</expan>
              mutuæ inter nos beneuolentiæ, mihi dono dedit: nam cum is
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              proximè ab Vrbe reuertiſſet, atque à me officij cauſſa adiretur, poſt
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              varios de rerum noſtrarum ſtatu ſermones vltro, citroque habitos,
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              eò delatus eſt, vt maximam ſe, atque adeo præcipuam aduerſæ for­
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              tunæ alleuationem, & à moleſtiis aberrationem ab vna pręſertim phi
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              loſophia inuenire affirmaret; in qua ita conquieſcere conſueuiſſet, vt
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              ſuæ omnes ægritudines hoc tamquam pharmaco lenirentur; quam­
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              obrem identidem me ad hoc ſtudium
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              hortabatur; apud
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              quem cum deuexam iam ætatem, domeſticaque negocia, quorum
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              multitudine propè obruor, excuſarem, hęc tibi præcepta dari opor­
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              tere exiſtimabam; & quoniam ſtudiorum cauſſa abeſſes, vehementer
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              ab eo contendere cœpi, vt aliquod huiuſmodi
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              genus, quod
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              te ad philoſophiam perdiſcendam inflammaret, nec tamen à ciuili ra
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              tione magnopere abhorreret, in tui gratiam pertexeret, vel ſi quid </s>
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