Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              Tam multa in tectis crepitans ſalit horrida grando.
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              <s id="s.011230">Hoc etiam, emenſo cùm iam decedet Olympo,
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              Profuerit meminiſſe magis: nam ſæpè videmus
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              Ipſius in vultu varios errare colores.
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              <s id="s.011231">Cæruleus pluuiam denuntiat, igneus Euros.
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              <s id="s.011232">Sin maculæ incipient rutilo immiſcerier igni,
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              Omnia tunc pariter vento, nimbiſque videbis
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              Feruere: non illa quiſquam me nocte per altum
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              Ire, neque à terra moneat conuellere funem.
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              <s id="s.011233">Areæ etiam plures, aut validis coloribus:
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              boues lingunt vngulas mugientes, & ad
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              cubilia redent, gallinæ puluere ſe opplen­
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              tes, mures ſtridentes, feles etiam caput ma­
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              nibus lauantes, imbrem prænuntiant. </s>
              <s id="s.011234">Sen­
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              tit mirum in modum procellas trifolium
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              aduenientes, cogitque ſe, contrahit ac
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              criſpat. </s>
              <s id="s.011235">Humidiſſimum enim cùm ſit, &
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              neruoſum, frigore, & aëris craſſitie contra­
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              hitur, ſolitum iam ſe mutare, ac modò
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              aſtringere, modò dilatare. </s>
              <s id="s.011236">Itaque nec in om­
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              nibus illius ſpeciebus forſan id continget:
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              nec multò minùs in omnibus aut ſemper
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              erit manifeſtum. </s>
              <s id="s.011237">Omnium conſtans latitudo
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              quædam exigitur. </s>
              <s id="s.011238">Minora ſigna etiam, cùm
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              abſunt venti, nubes, & diem caliginoſam
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              oſtendunt. </s>
              <s id="s.011239">Venti validi cum pluuiis, grandi­
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              nes, pluuia enim abſque ventis pura eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.011240">Prui­
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              na lædet vites, & arbores, penuriámque vini
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              indicet, quoties arboribus germina iam mit­
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              tentibus (id in noſtris regionibus contingit,
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              Martio, Aprili, initióque Maij) frigido ac ſe­
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              reno tempore plenilunium incidat, aut ſal­
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              tem ſi lumine Luna plena fuerit.
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              Trifolium
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              cur criſpetur
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              ſub
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              aduentu,</s>
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              Nubilioſi
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                poris</expan>
              ſigna.
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              <s id="s.011243">Grandinis
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              indicia
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              Pruinæ indi­
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              cia.</s>
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              Ventorum
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              vires.</s>
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              <s id="s.011245">Quæ verò fiunt ventorum ira, admiratio­
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              nem pariunt. </s>
              <s id="s.011246">Sæuiunt enim hi iugis mon­
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              tium, adeò vt dum Apenninum tranſirem,
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              ventus pileum ſuſtulerit, ac velut ſagittam
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              è ſcorpione emiſſam deferret cum impetu,
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              parúmque abfuerit, ne portenti vice decide­
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              ret cum pluuia in proximas villas. </s>
              <s id="s.011247">Tranſtu­
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              lit & equum, cui inſidebam per duos paſ­
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              ſus, vt fermè præcipitarer. </s>
              <s id="s.011248">Quare ne fabu­
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              loſum fuiſſe putem, quod à Pogio recitatur,
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              adducor. </s>
              <s id="s.011249">Recitat ille, ventis cohortis di­
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              rutum oppidum, quod Borgetum vocatur,
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              ſex M. paſſuum à Roma diſtantem, & ædem
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              diuæ Ruſinæ, tranſlatámque cauponam in­
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              tegram. </s>
              <s id="s.011250">Ergo neque mirum pluere ranas,
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              piſciculos, lapides: nam ranæ ac piſces è
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              montium iugis venti impetu transferuntur.
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              <s id="s.011251">Transfertur & puluis, qui ventorum co­
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              gitur in lapides. </s>
              <s id="s.011252">Indicio eſt non procul à
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              montibus illos cadere, ſed vt olim in Al­
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              bano monte, atque in vallibus è proximis,
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              altioribúſque montium cacuminibus. </s>
              <s id="s.011253">Re­
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              fert Georgius Agricola, Chepnicij luteam
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              terram cum aqua pluiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.011254">Et in Sueuia, an­
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              no 1534. aër inficiebat veſtes cruce rubra:
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              id contingit puluere cum imbribus delato,
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              forma verò crucis ob fila, quæ crucis for­
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              mam, dum texuntur, referunt, apparuit.
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              <s id="s.011255">Transferuntur & oua paruorum animalium,
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              vt etiam ranarum, & piſcium quæ inter
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              turbines ventorum, & imbrium procellas
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              emittunt animalia, quæ pluere videntur.
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              <s id="s.011256">Indicio tum eſt potiùs hæc contingere ob
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              putredinem, & cum generatione, quàm
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              quod transferantur: quoniam iuxta fodinas,
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              & vbi bitumen abundat magis hæc fiunt,
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              quàm alibi. </s>
              <s id="s.011257">Et frequentiùs pluant animalia,
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              quàm triticum, & reliqua cerealia, quæ ta­
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              men faciliùs transferri poſſent ipſis anima­
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              libus. </s>
              <s id="s.011258">Illud tamen mirabile eſt, quod Olaus
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              Magnus refert, de lemmare, vel lemmo, id
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              eſt, murium genus, quod in Septentrione de­
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              cidit tanta copia è nubibus, vt omnia vi­
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              rentia locuſtarum more abſumat: hócque
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              Pontici mures veſcuntur: & (de quo alibi di­
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              ctum eſt) ſi verum eſt, ſtatim vbi deciderit in
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              ventriculo diſſectum virentem herbam
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                dere</expan>
              : vt
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              non genitus videatur. </s>
              <s id="s.011259">Nihil
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              igitur mirum, ſi cauſas ſpectes: nam non niſi
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              in magnis ventorum motibus iſta contin­
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              gunt. </s>
              <s id="s.011260">Quamobrem & Reipublicæ tempore
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              hæc erant frequentia, quòd frequentiùs
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              etiam venti validiſſimi fierent. </s>
              <s id="s.011261">Imò vis ven­
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              torum olim maior videbatur: quam non ſo­
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              lùm hæc noſtra, ſed etiam diluuia, & inun­
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              dationes contingebant. </s>
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              De pluuia
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              ranarum, la­
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              pidum, &
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              piſcium.</s>
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              Cur olim
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              inundationes
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                <expan abbr="contingerẽt">contingerent</expan>
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              <s id="s.011264">Dira igitur hæc prodigia, quoniam à
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              ventis immodicis fiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.011265">At venti immodici
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              caliditate, & ſiccitate graui oriuntur: vnde
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              proditiones oſtendunt, vt etiam in adagio ſit,
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              Ventus immodicus, proditio viget. </s>
              <s id="s.011266">Aut enim
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              cauſa ventorum horum ex aſtris ſumpta eſt,
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              Mercurij, & Martis victoria, & ſiderum po­
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              tentiorum, Caniculæ, Arcturi, Oriontis:
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              aut vt ad nos propius accedamus, calida, &
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              ſicca conſtitutio, quæ imbecillia capite ve­
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              xat, ea agit in proditiones, ſeditiones, ac cæ­
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              des. </s>
              <s id="s.011267">Plebs autem plerunque talia habet ca­
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              pita ob paruam experientiam rerum, & in­
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              temperantiam, quocirca contingit illam
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              ad facinora, vel illorum peſſimos impelli.
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              <s id="s.011268">Sed falli etiam contingit, tuncque va­
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              luiſſe ſupplicationes diis factas creditum.
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              <s id="s.011269">eſt. </s>
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              Cur prodi­
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              gia ex plu­
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              uia, vel
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              immodici
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              mala præ­
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              nuncient.</s>
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              <s id="s.011271">Transferuntur & piſces in piſcinas, & no­
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              uas aquas, & noua ſemina alienas terras,
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              velut de laſere refert Theophraſtus: vnde
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              origo piſcium, nouarúmque plantarum
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              fruſtrà credita è putredine duxiſſe initium.
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              <s id="s.011272">Indicio eſt maximè hæc videri poſt pro­
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              cellas, nunquam poſt diuturnam ſereni­
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              tatem. </s>
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              Vnde nouæ
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              plantæ piſces
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              in aquis vbi
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              non erant.</s>
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              <s id="s.011274">Eadem ratione, quandoque, ſed rariùs no­
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              uum genus auium ac incognitum transfertur
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              è longinquis regionibus vi ventorum in no­
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              ſtras à quibus ſuſtinentur. </s>
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              <s id="s.011275">Simile eſt fermè, ſed quaſi diuinius, quòd
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              medicina meditatur per has conſtitutiones
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              temporum, ſalubritatem corporum, & mor­
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              borum genera prædicere, de quibus maximè
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              Hippocrates in tertia Aphoriſmorum par­
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              te, & Ariſtoteles in prima Problematum
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              tractauerunt, mirum quanta ſubtilitate. </s>
              <s id="s.011276">Suf­
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              ficiat mihi nunc futuræ peſtilentiæ ſigna re­
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              ferre, velut vtiliora, & euidentiora, tum de
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              quibus minùs exquiſitè tractauerint anti­
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              qui. </s>
              <s id="s.011277">Atque inter hæc primum atque firmiſſi­
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              mum, atque ſecundùm naturam non ſolùm
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              ſignum, ſed
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              cauſa eſt, aſſiduitás
                <expan abbr="pluuiarũ">pluuiarum</expan>
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