Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              fiat pedibus: & eò celerior, quò pedes etiam
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              ocyus mouentur, maiuſque ſpacium ſupe­
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              rant: & ſuauis, quoniam altera parte mota
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              reliqua quieſcat. </s>
              <s id="s.008938">Hic eſt ille gradiendi mo­
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              dus adeò celebratus, quem portantem vul­
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              gus vocat. </s>
              <s id="s.008939">Quòd ſi ſimul dexter anteior cum
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              poſteriore ſiniſtro moueatur tortorum equo­
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              rum hic eſt inceſſus, qui quum vtramque
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              partem equi moueat, mouet & totum homi­
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              nem, ac concutit: eóque magis, quò ma­
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              gis pedes à terra eleuantur. </s>
              <s id="s.008940">Semper enim il­
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              lud verum eſt, equos quò magis in inceſſu
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              pedes eleuant, difficiliorem efficere equita­
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              tionem, quo minus autem periculoſiorem,
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              quia pedes lapidibus allidendo ceſpitant.
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              <s id="s.008941">Sed ſi pedes anteriores ſimul moueant, inde
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              poſteriores ſimul, ſi quidem haud celerrimè,
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              nam celeriter neceſſarium eſt, velitum hic
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              eſt inceſſus, hæc fuga: ſi autem celerrimè,
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              curſus. </s>
              <s id="s.008942">Hi ambo hominem concutiunt &
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              fatigant, minus quidem quàm tortoris,
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              quia pars poſterior, aut anterior equitis
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              quieſcit, magis autem quàm aſturconis, quia
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              partis quies illa non eſt naturalis. </s>
              <s id="s.008943">Non enim
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              homo prius anteriorem partem mouet, inde
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              poſteriorem, ſed dextram, ſiniſtra prius, aut
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              ſaltem vice verſa. </s>
              <s id="s.008944">Quòd ſi nondum anterio­
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              ribus pedibus quieſcentibus poſteriores ele­
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              uentur, fit ſaltus. </s>
              <s id="s.008945">Hic igitur tres habet tem­
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              porum differentias: primam quidam, in qua
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              poſteriore equi parte quieſcente anterior
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              eleuatur hæc,
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              (
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              vt dixi) hominem minimè
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              concutit, quòd poſterior quieſcat: ſecun­
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              dam, in qua nondum quieſcentibus ante­
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              rioribus pedibus poſteriores eleuantur: hæc
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              non concutit, ſed renes propter motuum
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              contrarietatem flectendo fatigat: tertiam,
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              in qua pedes omnes ſimul deſcendunt, aut
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              anteriores prius: ſi quidem omnes pedes ſi­
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              mul deſcendant, cùm ex alto id fiat, homo
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              multum concutitur: ſi autem anteriores tan­
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              tùm, plurimùm vexatur ventriculus ob in­
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              clinationem. </s>
              <s id="s.008946">Hæc igitur de equorum moti­
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              bus dicta ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.008947">Sed docilitas eorum etiam
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              ſingularis eſt, adeò vt quidam enſem deci­
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              dentem dentibus arreptum porrigant, non
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              ſecus ac elephanti, domino: alij, quòd mi­
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              nus eſt: genua flectant. </s>
              <s id="s.008948">Docentur, vt de ca­
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              nibus dictum eſt, dum pulli ſunt fame do­
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              miti, inde pane, aut fœno enſi alligato,
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              dumque fœnum auellere ſtudent, enſem ele­
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              uant, quo capulo erepto cibum dant faci­
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              lem. </s>
              <s id="s.008949">Illinunt etiam enſem melle, atque ita
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              libenter arripiant. </s>
              <s id="s.008950">Inde contracta conſuetu­
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              dine, vt in frænandis etiam eadem diligen­
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              tia mihi bene ceſſerit, ſpontè nudum enſem
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              mordici arripiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.008951">Meminerunt enim equi
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              commodorum atque incommodorum. </s>
              <s id="s.008952">Vnde
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              non melius corrigitur equus qui ſpontè in
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              aquam ſe demittit, quàm ſi iam immer­
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              ſum duo robuſti viri tandiu auribus arre­
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              ptum ſub aquis teneant vt penè ſuffocetur
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              tunc enim periculi & anxietatis memor, non
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              amplius huic ſe periculo committere audet.
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              <s id="s.008953">Idem ſi reſtiterit, nec progredi velit, retrò
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              agatur etiam nolens, donec in ignem, aut
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              aculeos retroactus incidat, nec ſinatur pro­
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              gredi, donec ad extremum vitæ periculum
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              peruenerit. </s>
              <s id="s.008954">Quòd ſi ſe erigat, ſtylis capite
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              confoſſus deſcendere non permittatur. </s>
              <s id="s.008955">Alij
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              fuſte caput tundunt, quod non parum
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              prodeſt. </s>
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              Equorum
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              genera mo­
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              tus octo.</s>
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              I M
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              E F
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              A B
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              G H
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              Cauſa cur
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              equi
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              pedes.</s>
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              Equi quomo­
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              do docean­
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              tur.</s>
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              <s id="s.008961">Atque tot & tanta de animalibus dicta
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              ſufficiant, quæ ſingula armauit contra cibi
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              & potus penuriam, ad fœtum & prolis con­
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              ſeruationem, contra morbos, aduerſus tem­
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              porum iniuriam, aduerſus reliqua animalia,
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              denique etiam peculiari quodam ſtudio ad­
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              uerſus hominem, quod eſſet calidiſſimum.
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              <s id="s.008962">Principio aduerſus cibi inopiam curſu, ſaga­
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              citate, & vt ibi naſcerentur vbi illius etiam
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              copia eſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.008963">Veneris voluptatem & amorem
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              in prolem ad generis conſeruationem, pa­
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              ludes, aquas, montes, valles, ſpecus, late­
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              bras, ſyluas, dumeta, ramos, frondes, omnia
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              hæc ad tuendam prolem. </s>
              <s id="s.008964">Docuit & herbas
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              ad ſalutem, & abſtinentiam, quietémque
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              maiora quàm homini, ob medicorum impe­
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              ritiam, ex artis medicæ ope auxilia. </s>
              <s id="s.008965">Con­
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              tra temporum calamitates, arboribus, mon­
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              tibus foueis, corio, lana, pilo, pluma. </s>
              <s id="s.008966">Ad­
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              uerſus animalia reliqua, ſpinis, dentibus,
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              curſu, ſaltu, alis, vnguibus, latebris, veneno
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              aquis, ſagacitate, cornibus. </s>
              <s id="s.008967">Aduerſus autem
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              hominem piſces armauit elemento, quod
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              tutiſſimum eſt auxilium, adeò vt niſi vora­
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              citate fallerentur, gurgitibus tutò latêre
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              poſſent. </s>
              <s id="s.008968">Serpentes humilitate corporis, vn­
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              de etiam latent hyeme in latibulis, cum
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              prodeunt occultantur ab herba. </s>
              <s id="s.008969">Aues die alis
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              muniuit, quadrupedes celeritate: noctu ho­
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              minem, ne ſine luce cernere poſſet effecit,
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              cùm omnia quadrupedia videant, canes, lu­
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              pi, lepores, equi, aſini, boues, ſicque tutò
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              errare poſſunt, ac cibo, potúque frui, cùm
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              die homo omnes ſaltus poſſideat: at auibus
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              quia lux etiam noctu negata fuit, ſumma
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              arborum & turrium, tum vepres cubile de­
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              derunt, vt loci difficultate ſimul & obſcuri­
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              tate, tutæ forent ab inſidiis hominis. </s>
              <s id="s.008970">Ac­
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              ceſſit & huic commodo animalium cuncto­
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              rum, vtile homini, quandoquidem luce vti
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              ipſe in nocte poterat, vt cùm ſapientiſſimus
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              futurus eſſet, humidiſſimum ac frigidiſſi­
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              mum cerebrum erat neceſſarium: nam ca­
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              lidiſſimum cor habere debuit, vt molliſſi­
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              mum corpus laboribus ſufficeret: at mol­
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              liſſimum corpus erat neceſſarium, vt te­
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              nuiſſima ac ſpiritui tantarum rerum capaci
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              apta materia conſtaret: itaque in humidiſſi­
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              mo ac frigidiſſimo cerebro, vt à primo ad vl­
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              timum rem deducam, oculos ſplendentes at­
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              que ſiccos, quales ſunt felibus & nocturnis
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              auibus quæ ſicciſſimo ſunt cerebro: colloca­
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              re penitus fuit impoſſibile: quare de hominis
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              neceſſitate ac fortuna, nunc prius dicere ag­
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              grediar. </s>
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