Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              adeò relucent, vt tota ardere videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.006542">Eſt
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              enim laricis lignum rubicundum & perſpi­
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              cuum: propter id facilè fuit barbaris, & an­
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              tiquis his experimentis turbæ imponere,
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              nunc ſatis ſit ad ſcenas vti. </s>
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              Tabernacu­
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              lum ardens.</s>
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              <s id="s.006544">Pix autem Græca fit è piceæ lachryma,
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              & quam vocant colophoniam, apta ple­
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              ctris. </s>
              <s id="s.006545">Pinus igitur lachryma cruda colo­
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              phonia, excocta pix Græca: quod verò re­
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              ſudat è ligno in fornacibus excocto, pix
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              naualis. </s>
              <s id="s.006546">Reſtat igitur ſolùm vt doceamus,
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              cur pingue omne humidum ſit perſpicuum.
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              <s id="s.006547">Eſt autem tale, quia in illo viget calor
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              cœleſtis, ab illo enim concoctio: calor au­
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              tem cœleſtis claritatem affert, vt de Sole,
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              Luna, ſtellis, earumque lumine conſtat.
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              <s id="s.006548">Si igitur plurimum terræ miſceatur, ni­
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              tet: ſi parum, & nitet, & ſplendet, ac
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              perſpicuum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006549">Sed de his ſatis, ad propoſi­
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              tum redeamus. </s>
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              <s id="s.006550">Eſt & fructus, quem Caſſiam vocant fi­
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              ſtulam in illis regionibus, ſiliqua teres, fer­
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              ruginea, nigrave, pollicis magnitudine, cu­
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              bito nonnunquam longior, obliqua, ſucco
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              prædulci, ſed ingrato, nucleis paruis, lupi­
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              niſque ſimilibus, ſed longè durioribus: ar­
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              bor procera, folio fermè nucis, anguſtiore
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              tamen ac tenuiore: flore luteo, geniſtæ per­
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              ſimili, frigoris impatiens, humoris auidiſ­
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              ſima, vnde radices vſque in ſubiectam
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              aquam profert. </s>
              <s id="s.006551">Nec ob id naſcitur in no­
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              ſtris regionibus, quòd ab initio, cœli in­
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              clementia obſtet, creſcenti deſit humor:
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              nam in noſtris regionibus, profundiores
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              ſunt latices.
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              Caſſia fiſtula
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              cur in noſtris
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              regionibus
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              non creſcat.</s>
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              Vmbræ quàm
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              ſalutares, &
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              quàm morti­
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              feræ. </s>
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              <s id="s.006554">Sunt & arborum vires etiam ex vmbra
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              admirabiles: exitiales namque (vt diximus)
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              toxico, iuglandi, tithymalo, adultæ ficui,
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              ſorbo indicæ, aconito, taxo, rhododaphni:
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              hæc arbos apud nos frequens fructum,
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              caſſis nigræ, non amygdalæ ſimilem fert:
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              geniculis ſtipes abundat: quod cùm Dioſ­
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              corides prætermiſerit, in fructu verò de­
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              ceptus ſit, effecit, vt hanc quam habe­
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              mùs, rhododaphnen eſſe non exiſtimarem:
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              verùm ob fructus ſimilitudinem, caſſiam
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              nigram: at caſſiam non eſſe conſtat, ſed
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              cùm iumentis, ouibus, capris, ſuibus,
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              folio, ac flore exitialis ſit, cuperem de his
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              ſententiam eorum, qui in minimis adeò
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              ſunt curioſi, audire: nam & hominibus
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              ( vt dixi ) noxia eſt, licet haud exitialis.
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              <s id="s.006555">Salutares verò loto, fago, & Indicæ ho­
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              bio. </s>
              <s id="s.006556">Quibus ob odorem vtilis, vt roſæ,
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              myrto, nardo, malo medico, iunipero, ve­
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              lut mala buxo. </s>
              <s id="s.006557">Certauit & in his colorum
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              varietate laudatiſſimum braſilium, alij ver­
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              zinum vocant. </s>
              <s id="s.006558">Prouincia eſt Braſilia, à
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              nemoribus, quæ hoc ligno conſtant, voca­
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              ta, arbos non magna, Enzinæ ſimilis, ſed
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              tenuior, & magis obliqua: folium querci­
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              num, non tamen aſperum: cortex ex arbo­
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              re potius propter ſiccitatem ſpontè excidit.
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              Braſilium.</s>
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              Enzina ar­
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              bor.</s>
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              <s id="s.006561">At quia diximus Enzinæ ſimilem, eſt
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              enzina quercus in Hiſpania genus, minus,
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              & non adeò rectum, cuius glandes ob ſua­
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              uitatem eduntur: vetuſtate braſilium fit me­
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              lius, rubeſcitque magis, quo differt ab adul­
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              terino: leue eſt, ſubdulce, aſtringentiſque
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              ſaporis. </s>
              <s id="s.006562">Præclara vis ad tincturam, & ad
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              ſcribendum, multiſque modis hoc rubrum
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              atramentum paratur: alij lixiuio potenti, &
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              adhuc feruente illius ſcobem immittunt: de­
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              raſum vitro ſufficit ligni pars octaua, addi­
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              toque modico aluminis inter cineres cali­
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              dos, per horam excoquitur, protinuſque in
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              vſum admittitur, nec deſideratur lachryma
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              Arabica. </s>
              <s id="s.006563">Conſueui & aliter parare: lignum
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              in tenuiſſima fila deductum ſeco in fruſtula,
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              quæ aquæ decuplo pondere immitto, relin­
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              quens infuſum horis ſaltem ſex, inde exco­
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              quitur aqua cum ligno, donec tres è qua­
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              tuor partibus decedant, fitque colos ru­
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              beus, ſplendidus: ſi paulò plus exco­
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              quas, ſanguineus ruber: ſi adhuc diutiùs,
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              cæruleus. </s>
              <s id="s.006564">Neutro tamen modo, ni protinus
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              in vſum admittatur, diu ſeruari poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.006565">Pro­
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              prium eſt enim omnibus coloribus, qui è
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              plantarum fiunt partibus, tempore muta­
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              ri, nec purum omninò eſſe, quòd materia
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              plantarum imbecillis ſit, & humoris plena.
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              <s id="s.006566">Vnde ex eadem planta, Indi omnes colores
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              coquendo diutiùs, aut breuiori tempore
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              excipiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006567">Certior & viuacior ruber color,
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              qui ex cinnabare conficitur: diſſoluitur in
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              aqua Arabica iam lachryma imbuta, vel oui
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              candido longa agitatione ad aquæ ſpeciem
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              deducto. </s>
              <s id="s.006568">Sed & huic ſuum vitium: nam ſi
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              humoris plurimum miſceas, ſubſidente cin­
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              nabare colos dilutior redditur: ſi parum ce­
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              lerrimè abſumitur humor, quòd cinnabaris
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              immodicè ſiccet. </s>
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              Atramenti
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              rubri deſcri­
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              ptio.</s>
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              <s id="s.006570">Inter arborum genera quæ colorum va­
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              rietate præſtant, radix eſt vlmi, pòſt oleagi­
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              na. </s>
              <s id="s.006571">Ex his ob id vaſa & tabulæ gratiſſimi
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              vſus, non ſolùm ob colorem, ſed & ob
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              ſplendorem. </s>
              <s id="s.006572">Varietatis colorum cauſa, va­
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              rietas caloris & pars oleagina. </s>
              <s id="s.006573">Vt enim in
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              veſtibus, ſic & in his dum vitiat oleum,
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              priſtinos colores mutat. </s>
              <s id="s.006574">Sed in veſtibus ma­
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              cula dicitur, in his grata & varietas, quia
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              cum nitore coniuncta eſt. </s>
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              Vlmi radix
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              lignorum
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              pulcherri­
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              ma.</s>
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              <s id="s.006576">Betullæ primus honos eſſet, ſi tam nobis
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              quàm Getis, ac Sarmatis communis foret.
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              <s id="s.006577">Depictas enim in radicibus imagines ha­
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              bet, plantarum, volucrum, quadrupedum:
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              ipſa arbos quaſi media inter populum ac
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              pinum, capreolos auellanarum inſtar edit:
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              fructum, ex quo panes conficiunt: ſub cor­
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              tice liquor latet ſuauis, qui ſitim leuat:
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              cortice domos tegunt. </s>
              <s id="s.006578">Virgæ contumaces,
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              ob id Romanorum lictoribus in vſu: lignum
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              & ipſum non facilè frangitur, ob id materia
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              ſcutorum? </s>
              <s id="s.006579">mirabili candore, ac quòd in fru­
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              ſta tenuiſſima pro tabulis ſcindi ſe patiatur:
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              virgis etiam pro vinculis ruſtici vtuntur:
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              adeò lenta ſubſtantia. </s>
              <s id="s.006580">Locis frigidiſſimis
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              gaudet: & amica ſerpentibus, quorum copia
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              in radicibus perſæpe inueniri ſolet. </s>
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              <s id="s.006581">Sic ſuccus limunij colorem in coriis al­
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              terna varietate mutans commendat: nam
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              priorem dum vitiat, retento nitore, va­
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              rium dicitur reddere, non maculoſum. </s>
              <s id="s.006582">Sunt
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              & cannarum Indicarum radices varietate
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              coloris ac nitore gratæ. </s>
              <s id="s.006583">Atque in om­
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              nibus his præſtant arborum, quæ in mon­
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              tibus naſcuntur, his quæ in humiliori
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              bus locis. </s>
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