Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              pitudinem declarant. </s>
              <s id="s.011456">Qui igitur fingere ali­
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              quid volunt, formam eius primùm viſam
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              mente, quaſi memoria concipere debent, in­
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              de typum quendam ſeorſum delineare ſub­
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              tilius, pòſt præſente eo quod fingis ſingula
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              animaduertendo ad amuſſim perficere: latet
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              enim in vnoquoque partium quædam ſym­
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              metria, quam ſi non mente comceperis,
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              oculorum verò præſidio tantum innixus
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              tentes exprimere, operam luſeris. </s>
              <s id="s.011457">Neque
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              dimidium velut latus quoddam finges ne­
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              mo enim ſic inſpicit hominem, ſed paulu­
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              lum deflexo capite inter vtrunque ſitum.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.011458">Vnde etiam fit, vt ob hoc media facies
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              facilius, quàm tota repræſentetur: nam
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              quum media plures ( quemadmodum di­
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              ctum eſt
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              )
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              habeat ſitus, ideo illius forma in
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              quadam latitudine conſiſtit: tota verò in
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              vno quaſi puncto poſita eſſet ſumma qua­
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              dam perfectione repræſentationis. </s>
              <s id="s.011459">Facilius
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              autem multò quod quantitatem habet aſ­
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              ſequi, quàm rem diuiſionis expertem, &
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              quæ ſolùm fermè cogitatione concipi poſ­
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              ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.011460">Quum verò videantur tria repræſentandi
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              genera, primum quidem in ſuperficiebus,
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              vocaturque pictura, alterum in corporibus
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              iam factis cælando, ſculpendoque, tertium
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              quod ipſa efficit corpora, vocaturque pla­
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              ſtice, manifeſtum eſt picturam omnium ha­
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              rum eſſe difficillimam, atque ideo nobiliſ­
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              ſimam. </s>
              <s id="s.011461">Eius partes tres ſunt, delineatio,
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              vmbra atque color. </s>
              <s id="s.011462">Cùm enim in plano
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              corpora effingere cogatur, vmbrarum & de­
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              lineationum auxilio indiget: ob idque aliis
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              artibus, quæ in corporibus ipſis effigies ex­
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              primunt, difficilior eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.011463">Albus
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              color res
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              minores oſtendit, velut niger maiores. </s>
              <s id="s.011464">Argu­
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              mento ſunt libri impreſſi, quorum atramen­
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              tum, vt dilutius fuerit, eò literas minores
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              videri facit. </s>
              <s id="s.011465">Ob id quæcunque minima pin­
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              gere volumus, albo pingimus, velut in tabel­
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              la illuſtris viri Gulielmi Caulij præfecti
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              montium Allobrogum, apud quem multa
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              noua atque præclara vidimus, dum eſſe­
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              mus Lugduni. </s>
              <s id="s.011466">Eſt enim vir eruditus, atque
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              humaniſſimus. </s>
              <s id="s.011467">Inter multa enim naturæ
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              monſtra, & hoc artis oſtendit, hyemem
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              ſcilicet in tabella depictam. </s>
              <s id="s.011468">Ibi dum fin­
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              gitur eques inter montes procul, vt conſpi­
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              ci vix omninò queat, albo pictus eſt, ſoler­
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              ti artificis inuento, vt minor etiam videre­
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              tur, quàm videri poſſet, & tamen videre­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.011469">Albus enim color luci ipſi propinquiſ­
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              ſimus eſt, vt nulla illius pars, vt nec lucis
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              ipſius, latere poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.011470">Nihil verò videtur abſ­
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              que communibus ſenſilibus. </s>
              <s id="s.011471">Sic etiam co­
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              loribus iuuatur ad fallendum, eſtque hæc
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              tinctura potius quàm pictura. </s>
              <s id="s.011472">Sæpè enim
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              contingit, vt tigna vetuſta fuco inficiamus,
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              nouaque videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.011473">Id quia facillimum eſt,
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              & pro natura cuiuſque ligni variatur, nunc
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              prætermitto. </s>
              <s id="s.011474">Adiuuatur in vmbris ab obſcu­
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              ritate, & parte quandoque plaſtici operis.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.011475">Quæ duo cùm in cœnaculo beati Saluato­
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              ris, (ſic enim vulgari nomine apud Papien­
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              ſes dicitur ) iuncta ſint, effecerunt vt nullibi
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              melius pictum columnarum theatrum pro
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              verò habeatur. </s>
              <s id="s.011476">Nam præter loci obſcurita­
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              tem, & artificis miram induſtriam, fornix
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              medio picturæ non ficta, ita fallit oculos, vt
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              vel omnia picta, vel omnia fabricata exiſti­
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              mare cogaris. </s>
              <s id="s.011477">Mirum ad quantam audaciam
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              ars hæc proceſſerit, vt tonitrua, voceſque
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              hominum, & mentis affectus, & ſucceſſus
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              temporum, & quæ pingi non poſſunt, imò
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              vix dici, exprimere conata ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.011478">Succeſſiones
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              itaque temporum & locorum ita inſtituit,
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              vt prima antè & maiora, & caduca, vt quaſi
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              vmbræ videantur. </s>
              <s id="s.011479">Exemplum: latrunculo­
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              rum ludus poſtquam proceſſerit pingendus
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.011480">Inanes locos quos primò latrunculi re­
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              liquerunt facies, quoniam peritis ſatis con­
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              ſtat ab initio latrunculum ibi fuiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.011481">Eos qui
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              ſemel tantùm proceſſerunt, efficacibus colo­
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              ribus pinges, non ſecus ac immotos, eò ta­
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              men minores, quò magis proceſſerint: con­
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              trà, aduerſæ partis eò maiores. </s>
              <s id="s.011482">Quòd ſi iam
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              bis proceſſerit latrunculus, quò propior eſt,
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              eò paulò maior, ſed primi proceſſus figura
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              dilutior, ac quaſi obſoleta, locus quem iam
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              vltimò poſſidet figuram coloribus integram
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              oſtendet. </s>
              <s id="s.011483">Agedum ter latrunculus aliquis
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              proceſſerit, primo quidem loco vmbrati­
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              lem deſcribes, ſecundo efficaciorem, tertio
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              abſolutam. </s>
              <s id="s.011484">Menſuram autem ab eo qui ſæ­
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              pius locum mutarit accipito: ſit ille, qui
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              iam quinquies locum mutarit, extremo ab­
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              ſoluetur latrunculus, pingeturque efficacibus
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              coloribus, non ſecus, ac ſi nunquam motus
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              eſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.011485">Penultimo fatiſcet, & quaſi vetus iam
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              ſit pictura, pingendus erit. </s>
              <s id="s.011486">Tertio loco iam
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              obſoletus, qui tamen integer videri poſſit,
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              reliquiis adhuc colorum extantibus. </s>
              <s id="s.011487">In ſe­
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              cundo loco effigiem vmbræ latrunculi habe­
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              bunt nullis coloribus fultam, ſed tamen in­
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              tegram. </s>
              <s id="s.011488">Primo autem loco veſtigia vmbræ
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              tantùm erunt, & figuræ partes mutilæ qua­
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              ſi exciderint, ita tamen vt dignoſci forma
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              latrunculi poſſit, menteſque aſſequi illum
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              quandoque licet iampridem ibi fuiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.011489">Ita
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              reliquorum ab vltimis ſucceſſionibus, non
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              primis imitatio ſumenda erit. </s>
              <s id="s.011490">Itaque facilè
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              fuerit, vbi locorum non magna eſt differen­
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              tia, tum etiam auxilio diſtinctionis partium
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              vt quæ antè proceſſerint, in limite quaſi ex­
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              tremo ponantur, ſucceſſionem exprimere.
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              <s id="s.011491">Similiter & inceſſum hominum atque ani­
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              malium faciei aſpectus oſtendit. </s>
              <s id="s.011492">At ſi loci
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              longinquitas temporis ſucceſſioni repugnet,
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              plerique pictores dum non ſolùm magnitu­
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              dinem, ſed & colorem auferunt, ſucceſſionis
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              imaginem tollunt. </s>
              <s id="s.011493">Ob id igitur non vt illi
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              locum primum imagine magna, & ob pro­
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              pinquitatem expreſſa, procul autem parua, &
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              vmbratili temporis ſucceſſum auferendo, ſed
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              propè magnam quidem, ſed velut vmbram
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              prorſus, vt quæ quod fuerit, non quod ſit re­
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              præſentet, procul autem paruam quidem
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              pro diſtantiæ magnitudine, & deliteſcen­
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              tem, non tamen adeò vt primam, nec cu­
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              ius pars quaſi caduca ſit, depingemus. </s>
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              Mediam fa­
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              ciem fingere
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              facilius
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              quàm
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              Pingendi,
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              cælandi, &
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              ſculpendi
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              commune
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              præceptum.</s>
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              Picturæ par­
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              tes tres.</s>
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              Color albus
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              res facit vi­
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              deri mino­
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              res.</s>
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              Gulielmi
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              Caulij Galli
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              laus.</s>
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              Cœnaculum
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              beati Salua­
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              toris Papiæ.</s>
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              Succeſſiones
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              temporum
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              quomodo
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              pingantur.</s>
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              <s id="s.011501">Quod verò hoc etiam eſt admirabilius, &
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              miraculo propius, eſt faciem quaquaverſum
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              ( quod nos aliquando vidimus ) reſpicien­
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              tem pingere. </s>
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              <s id="s.011502">Sed de his iam ſuperius multa diximus,
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              ad cælandi ſculpendique præcepta tranſeun­
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              dum eſt. </s>
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              <s id="s.011503">Sculpere dico, quum prominere imagines
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              facimus, vt in ſtatuis ac nummis, qui Prin-</s>
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