Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ferret? </s>
              <s id="s.012979">cui inter pauciſſimos, rariſſimo exem­
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              plo, contigit à Concilio Pontificia dignita­
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              te exui. </s>
              <s id="s.012980">Demum illud erit commodi mor­
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              talibus talia recitanti, vt qui non probant,
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              tuti ſint ab horum ſcelere: ſciantque quæ
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              admitti oporteat, quæque vitari. </s>
              <s id="s.012981">Multi enim
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              adeò timidi & ſuperſtitioſi euadunt, vt dum
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              vitare ſtudent, quæ vitanda non ſunt, fuga
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              vana ſuperſtitionis ſuperſtitioſi fiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.012982">Super­
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              ſtitio enim fit non ſolùm quum facimus quæ
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              non ſunt facienda, ſed etiam quum quæ vi­
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              tanda non ſunt vitamus. </s>
              <s id="s.012983">Olim magis vi­
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              guerunt hæ artes nondum nobis orto vero
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              Chriſti lumine: ſed quàm parum valerent,
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              oſtendit inuentor ipſe Zoroaſtes, regno ſi­
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              mul à Cyro Cambyſis, & vita ſpoliatus. </s>
              <s id="s.012984">Re­
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              citat enim Pauſanias, vidiſſe ſe in oppidulo
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              Pioniæ Myſiæ iuxta Caycum, dum Pioni
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              (ex Herculis hic fuit deſcendentibus) oppi­
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              di conditori ſacrificarent, è ſedulchro Pionis
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              fumum exhalaſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.012985">Quòd dolo factum fuit,
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              quid enim prohibet, ſub ara ſuppoſito cana­
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              li ad ſepulchrum tendente, atque in canalis
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              origine, bitumine ac ſtyrace, aut thure, reve
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              alia quàm quæ in altari adoletur, vel aqua­
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              rum exemplo, vel Heronis dum ſacrificio
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              ſpontè portas templi aperiri docet, fumum
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              erumpere è tumulo? </s>
              <s id="s.012986">ſed & alia naturali ra­
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              tione abſque dolo conſtare potuit. </s>
              <s id="s.012987">Vidit &
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              in Hypoëpis, Hierocæſareæque Lydiæ vr­
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              bibus, cinerem in ara non alij colori ſimi­
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              lem, qui quum barbaricis precibus effuſis
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              aridorum lignorum ſtrue ſuper condita,
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              flammam ſemper emitteret, lignáque ſu­
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              perimpoſita abſumeret. </s>
              <s id="s.012988">Potuit & id multis
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              modis fieri: vel ſi ara caluerit, aut ſi inſ­
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              puerit, nonne calx aqua accenditur? </s>
              <s id="s.012989">Et nos
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              lapidem infrà fabricare docebimus, qui hu­
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              mido quocunque accenditur. </s>
              <s id="s.012990">Quid aliud ma­
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              ius argumentum quòd vis in cinere eſſet
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              potiùs quàm verbis, quàm color cineris à
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              cinere alienus? </s>
              <s id="s.012991">cùm tot modis præſtigias has
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              facere liceat, non eſt quòd laborem. </s>
              <s id="s.012992">Nam &
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              in cinere latêre potuit ignis, velut in fuligi­
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              ne ſolet, cùm exiguus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.012993">Non eiuſmodi eſt
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              quod recitat ille idem dicens: In Methonis
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              agro cùm Africus ventus vitium germina
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              excutere ſoleret, gallum alis albis duo al­
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              trinſecus tenentes diſcerpebant, cùm fru­
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              ſtóque circumcurrentes vites ex aduerſo
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              donec denuò coirent vnà-, ſepeliebant gal­
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              lum ventúſque ceſſabat. </s>
              <s id="s.012994">Hic perſuaſio, pri­
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              mùm ad decipiendum multum poteſt, tum
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              magis ſi à religione foueatur. </s>
              <s id="s.012995">Deinde vento­
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              rum in quibuſdam locis breues ſunt admo­
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              dum flatus, rariſſimè longi. </s>
              <s id="s.012996">Potuit aliquid
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              forſan fides, quæ cum geniis ipſis coniuncta
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              eſt: aut res ipſa naturali aliqua abdita cau­
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              ſa, aut dæmon, qui cum aëreus ſit, nulli ma­
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              gis quàm aëri imperat. </s>
              <s id="s.012997">Vnde tempeſtates,
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              dum adiurantur, exoriri ſolent. </s>
              <s id="s.012998">Multa etiam
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              in his contingunt quaſi ſint, quæ non ſunt.
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              Illud admirabilius quod in Heraclea Elidis
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              Peloponeſi Prouincia equum æneum fuiſſe
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              narrat in loco cui nomen erat Quialten,
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              cauda præciſa, & alioquin haud formoſum,
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              quem alij equi inire conarentur, adeóque
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              peruicaci ſtudio, vt ob æris leuitatem dila­
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              bentibus repetito aſcenſu vngulæ frange­
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              rentur, donec fuſtibus abigerentur. </s>
              <s id="s.012999">Hinnie­
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              bant velut reperta equa, & è multis ſtatuis
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              hanc vexabant, aliis intactis. </s>
              <s id="s.013000">Obiiciat hic
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              nobis forſan illud poëticum. </s>
              <s id="s.013001">Quicquid Græ­
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              cialmendax Mandat in hiſtoriis, me addu­
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              cere: vt (quorundam more) impleatur liber,
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              ſi non poteſt abſolui. </s>
              <s id="s.013002">Sed ab hac labe Pau­
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              ſaniam immunem inuenio, non minus quàm
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              Italarum quenquem. </s>
              <s id="s.013003">In his enim quæ vidit,
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              temporum noſtrorum obſeruatio hiſtoriam
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              comprobat. </s>
              <s id="s.013004">Quid in Xenophonte, quid in
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              Thucy dide abſurdum? </s>
              <s id="s.013005">Vitiauit Herodotus,
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              aliíque complures Græcam hiſtoriæ fidem:
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              ſed adulterina à legitimis nemo eſt, qui di­
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              gnoſcere non queat. </s>
              <s id="s.013006">Arte igitur equum fa­
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              brefactum conſtat, eáque naturali, non dæ­
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              monum auxilio, quiſquis fuit opifex: ſeu im­
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              miſto, quod quidam volunt hippomane, ſeu
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              ſanguine menſtruo equæ, aut illius potius
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              ſemine, aliove philtro, quòd in furorem Ve­
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              neris equos agat, non admiror multum. </s>
              <s id="s.013007">Il­
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              lud magis me detinet, quòd cùm æri fuſo hæc
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              immiſta ſint, non amiſerint vires, & exuſta
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              nidorem fumi non veneficij retinuerint.
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              <s id="s.013008">Deinde, etiam ſi retinere potuiſſent, quomo­
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              do tamdiu & tot per annos? </s>
              <s id="s.013009">Aut ſi non om­
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              ninò æri immiſta fuêre philtra, quomodo
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              non computruerint? </s>
              <s id="s.013010">Veriſimile eſt, equo­
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              rum ſemen abditum viſceribus, immiſtúm­
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              que lachrymæ haud putredini obnoxiæ, fo­
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              raminibus quibuſdam relictis: aut etiam
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              prius excoctum, ne rancidum fieret, incitaſſe
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              equos, præſertim forma adiuuante. </s>
              <s id="s.013011">Nam
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              equi obtuſa acie videndi, etiam pictis equis,
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              quandoque hinnierunt, quid mirum eſt à
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              ſtatua, & odore deceptos? </s>
              <s id="s.013012">At æneam depre­
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              henderant, tunc iam concitato furore te­
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              nebantur, & vngula qua ſtatuam premunt
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              ſenſus omninò expers eſt, & odor cum for­
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              ma adhuc vrget. </s>
              <s id="s.013013">Neque eſt quod de ſexu mi­
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              reris: equi enim odore non viſu ſexum diſtin­
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              guunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013014">Placuit artifici, ſeu vt magis mirum
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              videretur, ſeu quod mores, vt Affranius, arte
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              proderet ſua, ſexum mutare: quandoquidem
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              ad opus ipſum, & præſtigias hoc nihil fa­
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              ceret. </s>
              <s id="s.013015">Faciebat forſan non parum caudam
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              ſuſtuliſſe, vt odor magis concitaret equos.
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              <s id="s.013016">Quid referam de his quos carminibus refe­
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              runt apud Sueuos glaciem concitatam repri­
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              mere? </s>
              <s id="s.013017">Hæc maiora ſunt fide. </s>
              <s id="s.013018">Alij aſtris hæc
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              tribuunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013019">Narrat Ioannes Leo, in cacumine
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              arcis Marrochi tria eſſe aurea poma ponde­
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              ris librarum 1350. quæ multi reges neceſſi­
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              tate compulſi dum auferre tentaſſent, ſemper
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              infœlicibus caſibus ſunt impediti. </s>
              <s id="s.013020">Referunt
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              conflata fuiſſe pretio monilium, gemmarúm­
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              que vxoris regis Iacob Almanſoris, & ſyde­
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              rum concordi poteſtate, tum præcantationi­
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              bus munita aduerſus eos qui illa auferre de­
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              ſtinaſſent. </s>
              <s id="s.013021">Quòd ſi ibi aurum eſt, non ſup­
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              poſitum clandeſtinè à Principibus metal­
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              lum aliud, conſtante ob vulgi metum fa­
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              ma, ad ea quæ de Hermionis monili ſu­
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              perius ſcripta ſunt, ratio transferenda erit.
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              <s id="s.013022">Idem narrat in Feſſa, (vrbs eſt nobiliſſi­
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              ma Africæ, ſi Chairum excipias) figuris
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              quibuſdam in arena factis vates res ad
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              amuſſim prædicere, vt qui experiun­
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              tur ſtupeant. </s>
              <s id="s.013023">Refert Matthiolus Medi­
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              dicus iuxta Romam Eremitam ſenem fuiſ­
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              ſe, ad quem multi veniebant eorum no-</s>
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