Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              nactus eſt promuſcidem: & ſi licet dicere
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              dentes, illos adeò magnos, & adeò exte­
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              teriùs prominentes. </s>
              <s id="s.007889">Eadem dico de delphi­
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              ne. </s>
              <s id="s.007890">Sed iam aliò properat oratio: nec mo­
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              ram pateretur, niſi hoc vnum occurreret
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              quod nuper dixi, ſcilicet, cur mulæ ſint
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              ſteriles. </s>
              <s id="s.007891">Fatigat hoc Ariſtotelem, cæte­
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              roſque philoſophos, nos minimè in hoc
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              quæſito laboramus. </s>
              <s id="s.007892">Declaratum enim ſu­
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              prà eſt, quæcunque generationem habent
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              imperfectam, eſſe ſterilia: at cùm ſemen
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              equi aſinique multum diſſideant, adeò vt
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              ſint in terminis extremis eorum quæ ſi­
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              mul ad generandum conuenire poſſunt,
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              liquet quæ generantur ex horum commi­
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              ſtione eſſe ſterilia. </s>
              <s id="s.007893">Minus autem his canes
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              Indicos, qui è tigride, & cane generantur:
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              minus etiam lyciſcas, è cane & lupo geni­
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              tas. </s>
              <s id="s.007894">Similiter & laconicos ex vulpe & ca­
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              ne: nam hi cùm parentum naturæ parum
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              diſſideant, prolifici ſunt, & in alteram
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              parentum ſpeciem tranſeunt continua ſuc­
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              ceſſione. </s>
              <s id="s.007895">Quod equidem fieri non poſſet,
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              ſi mulæ aliqua propria cauſa ſumpta, ex
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              parentum diſſimilitudine ſterileſcerent. </s>
              <s id="s.007896">Sed
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              eſt, vt dixi, cauſa hæc communis omnibus,
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              quæ generatione imperfecta procreantur,
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              ſeu ex putredine, ſeu multum diſſidente na­
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              tura ſeminis maris à ſanguine fœmellæ. </s>
              <s id="s.007897">Vn­
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              de ex hoc generalis cauſa ſterilitatis habe­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.007898">Cum enim ſemina maſculi fœminæque
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              intra limites temperamenti fuerint, genera­
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              tio fit, & quod naſcitur prolificum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007899">Si
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              verò ambo ſemina contrariis fuerint qua­
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              litatibus generabunt, ſed quod generabi­
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              tur, ſterile erit. </s>
              <s id="s.007900">Si verò ſimili laborent in­
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              temperie, nihil generabunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007901">Sunt & ſteriles,
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              in quibus virga non erigitur. </s>
              <s id="s.007902">Hic autem, ſi
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              natura contingat, parentibus ſenibus ſunt
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              geniti. </s>
              <s id="s.007903">In quibuſdam ſemen vitioſum eſt,
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              vt in his quibus auulſi ſunt teſtes. </s>
              <s id="s.007904">Permu­
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              tantur igitur hac commixtione ſpecies, ac
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              deſinunt eſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.007905">Forſan ex hoc genere erant
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              alces, quos fuiſſe Cæſaris ætate certum eſt:
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              at nunc an ſint, & quid ſint, incertum eſt.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007906">Similiter & cameli Indici Pauſaniæ tempo­
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              ribus pardis colore, & varietate ex toto ſi­
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              miles: at nunc, aut nulli ſunt, aut rari ad­
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              modum: inconſtans enim ( vt dixi) eſt cu­
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              iuſque imperfecti animalis generatio, natu­
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              raque. </s>
              <s id="s.007907">Sed iam tempus eſt, vt his relictis,
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              ad genus perfectiorum animalium ( hæc au­
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              tem digitos habent in pedibus, non vngu­
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              las) tranſeamus. </s>
              <s id="s.007908">Perfectiora verò nobis ini­
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              tium dabunt. </s>
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              Camelus
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              magis omni­
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              bus aliis
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              animalibus
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              videtur ho­
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              minum cau­
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              ſa factus.</s>
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              Cur anima­
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              lia nobiliora
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              formam ha­
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              beant pro­
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              priam aliis
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              omnibus
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              abſimilem.</s>
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              Mulæ cur
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              ſteriles.</s>
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              Sterilitatis
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              cauſa.</s>
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              Cameli In­
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              dici.</s>
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              <s id="s.007914">Perfectiores autem in hoc genere canes
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              ſunt, atque hi è lupis olim ortum habue­
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              runt. </s>
              <s id="s.007915">Cùm verò efferantur, primò quidem
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              in agreſtes, inde in lupos, ſicut & lupi ci­
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              cures poſt multas generationes in canes
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              tranſeunt. </s>
              <s id="s.007916">Vnde lyciſca è lupo caneque nec
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              obſtat vocis varietas, quandoquidem in
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              occidentalis Indiæ Hiſpana inſula canes ex
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              toto muti ſint, quantò magis vlulare poſ­
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              ſunt, cùm etiam aliqui canes domeſtici
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              vlulent, tametſi inter oſtenta habeatur. </s>
              <s id="s.007917">In­
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              dicio quoque eſt canes è luporum genere
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              eſſe, rabies, vtriſque communis morbus,
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              atque pernicioſiſſimus: ſed tamen in lupo
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              etiam grauior, ac prorſus immedicabilis,
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              adeò vt furens lupus ad ſexaginta animalia
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              diuerſi generis occiderit, in quibus homi­
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              nes erant plus quàm viginti: nec quiſquam
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              euaſit, qui ab eo læſus eſſet, neque animal
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              vllum, cùm etiam equus vix vngue, non
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              dentibus ſcalptus perierit: niſi vir quem
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              multis vulneribus confecerat. </s>
              <s id="s.007918">Cauſam fuiſ­
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              ſe credo, quòd illi multus effluxerit ſan­
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              guis. </s>
              <s id="s.007919">Eſt autem rabies morbus ex putredine
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              ſicca: ob id in fero animali, & ſponte ſua
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              iam ſicciore, ſæuior. </s>
              <s id="s.007920">Omnis tamen rabies,
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              vbi ad aquæ timorem peruenerint, inſana­
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              bilis eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007921">Vnde Ouidius:
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              Nec formidatis vlla medetur aquis.
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              Derabie</s>
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              <s id="s.007923">Miſcetur canis vulpi & tigridi commu­
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              nibus filiis, qui vtriuſque referunt formam.
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              <s id="s.007924">Nam cùm tempora geſtationis vteri conue­
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              nerint, miſceri poſſunt, vt in arboribus di­
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              ctum eſt, & cibus communis extiterit. </s>
              <s id="s.007925">Alo­
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              peca è cane ac vulpe, quem vidi, maſculus
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              erat & mutus, neſcio an tales ſint omnes.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.007926">Hoc animal ingenioſiſſimum videtur natu­
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              ra homini conſultò copulaſſe, quòd ſemper
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              natura ſimilia ſimilibus nectere nitatur, &
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              morum ſimilitudo pariat, ac retineat amici­
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              tiam. </s>
              <s id="s.007927">Grauis enim eſſet canis homini, ni
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              adeò ſolers natura eſſet: amatur ob diligen­
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              tiam & ingenium, quibus placet. </s>
              <s id="s.007928">Ferociſ­
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              ſimi, & robuſtiſſimi maximique ſunt in
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              Corſica inſula, tum ob aërem, humido enim
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              creſcunt quæ natura ſunt ſicca tum ob
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              exercitationem & educationem. </s>
              <s id="s.007929">Caput ha­
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              bent maximum, corporis comparatione,
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              quod etiam magum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007930">Cibus, pugna, aër,
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              educatio, natura illos immutant, adeò vt
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              ſpecie differre videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.007931">Docentur odiſſe
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              genera quædam hominum, vt quondam
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              Rhodi Turcas, Bezerillus Indos. </s>
              <s id="s.007932">Hic erat
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              canis, qui homines Indos ab Hiſpanis diſ­
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              cernebat, autore Gonzalo Fernando Ouie­
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              do. </s>
              <s id="s.007933">Humanis carnibus maximè efferantur, &
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              ſenſum ſupra naturam acuunt: vt ille doctus
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              eſſet, volentes ducere, nolentes lacerare,
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              proſtratis parcere. </s>
              <s id="s.007934">Quod illi in Dei volun­
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              tatem & indulgentiam transferunt, ego vel
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              cibo humanæ carnis tribuo, vel vſui, vel
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              potius dæmonum auxilio. </s>
              <s id="s.007935">Neque enim pla­
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              cere Deo tantam crudelitatem mihi perſua­
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              ſerim. </s>
              <s id="s.007936">Hic vocem pugnantium, retrahen­
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              tiumque intelligebat, doctus, & digito vel
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              nomine demonſtratos aggredi, lacerare,
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              trahere. </s>
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              Canes acer­
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              rimi.</s>
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              Canis mi­
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              rabilis ſen­
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              ſus.</s>
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              <s id="s.007939">Naſci animalia, hominum moribus ſimi­
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              lia, in ſingulis fermè regionibus, edocet in
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              Lithuania Roſomacha, ſeu Gulo animal
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              quantitate canis, facie felis, dorſo & cauda
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              vulpis: pedes & vngues aſperi, ac firmi,
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              tum dentes. </s>
              <s id="s.007940">Atque adeò vt canes qui lupos
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              non reformidant, ab eis abſtineant. </s>
              <s id="s.007941">Pellis
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              albicat fuſco admiſto, variaſque formas li­
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              neis quibuſdam deductis exprimit. </s>
              <s id="s.007942">Eiuſmodi
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              videre licet in his pannis, qui ex Aſia ad­
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              uehuntur, vocanturque Zambeloti. </s>
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              hi ( vt fertur) caprarum pilis, vndulato ope­
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              re. </s>
              <s id="s.007944">Tales figuras natura finxit in gulonum
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              pellibus, quæ vbi calorem conceperint, re­
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              tinent: ſtatim verò concipiunt: ob id tum
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              propter pulchritudinem, tum rarietatem
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              principum geſtamen eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.007945">Quamvis ſomnia
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              fera immittant. </s>
              <s id="s.007946">Nam & inſidias moliri </s>
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