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            che faceſſe coſatale, ò ſe la fece, non fu giudicata degna
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            da quel grauiſsimo e profetico Scrittore d’eſſer nominata
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            attendendo egli alle coſe graui; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s67" xml:space="preserve">e diuine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s68" xml:space="preserve">e queſta, eſſen-
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            do coſa, che par che ſerua à gli ſcherzi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s69" xml:space="preserve">Ne gli ſcritti de’
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            Gentili, antichiſsimo è Vulcano figliuolo di Giunone, e
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            nepote di Saturno Creteſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">Hora egli è manifeſto, che
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            Vulcano oltra modo ſi dilettò dell’arte delferro, e la trat-
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            tò con induſtria marauiglioſa, come ſi caua dall’autorità
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            di tutti ì più antichi Poeti che haueſſe la Grecia, nè ſi nar-
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            ra coſa veruna degna di ſtuporeper l’artificio, che da loro
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            non s’attribuiſca à Vulcano; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s71" xml:space="preserve">come della rete inuiſibile,
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            ond’egli preſe Marte, Della ſedia coni lacci coperti, che
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            egli donò alla Madre, ond’ella, come ſcriue Pauſania,
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            nell’Attica, rimaſe legata; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">dell’arme di Achille; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s73" xml:space="preserve">dell’ar-
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            co di Diana; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s74" xml:space="preserve">dell’abbeueratoio de’Caualli di Nettuno;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s75" xml:space="preserve">del ſcettro famoſiſsimo di Gioue; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s76" xml:space="preserve">e dello Scudo di Her-
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            cole, di cui ſcriue Heſiodo coſe marauiglioſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s77" xml:space="preserve">Homero,
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            nondimeno, fra gli altri Poeti Greci, antichiſsimo, fa fede
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            ch’egli valeſſe molto in queſti artificij Se mouenti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s78" xml:space="preserve">percio
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            che, oltral hauergli dato nel
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            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s79" xml:space="preserve">dell’Iliade le ſeruen-
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            ti d’oro fabricate da lui, che non meno che ſe foſſero ſtate
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            animate, e ragioneuoli, lo ſeruiuano. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s80" xml:space="preserve">Soggiunge di quei
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            Tripodi, che moſsi per via di ruote ſe n’andauano da ſe
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            ſteſsi à combattere frà loro, e poi da ſe ſteſsi pure ſene
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            ritornauano à caſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s81" xml:space="preserve">I verſi del Poeta colà doue egli intro-
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            duce Zeti andata alla ſua fucina pcrimpetrar da lui l’arme
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            per Achille, ſono queſti:</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s83" xml:space="preserve">Lui ritrouò pien di ſudore intorno
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            A mantici aggirarſi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s84" xml:space="preserve">però ch’egli
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            Fabricato s’hauea venti laueggi,
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            Sol per locargli alle pareti in giro
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            De l’ alto ſuo ben fabricato </s>
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