Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              fuiſſet in terram prouolutus. </s>
              <s id="s.013431">Cùm quidam
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              quærerent, quid ille poſtquam in terram
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              volutarentur, ageret? </s>
              <s id="s.013432">conatum, inquit, mor­
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              tuum, adhibitis gulæ manibus, vt eum ſtran­
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              gularet. </s>
              <s id="s.013433">Nec obſtitiſſe quicquam, niſi quòd
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              ſeipſum tueretur manibus. </s>
              <s id="s.013434">Cùm alij dubita­
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              rent, ne fortè hæc à viuo paſſus eſſet, interro­
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              garéntque, in quo mortuum à viuente ſecer­
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              nere potuiſſet,
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              reddidit ſatis probabi­
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              lem, dicens, ſe tanquam cottum attrectaſſe,
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              nec pondus habuiſſe, niſi vt premebatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013435">Or­
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              bis magnus eſt, & æuum longum, & error ac
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              timor multum in hominibus poſſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013436">Eadem
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              verò ratione, qua in Iſlandia, in arenæ ſoli­
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              tudinibus Ægypti, & Æthiopiæ, Indiæque,
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              vbi Sol ardet, eædem imagines, eadem ſpe­
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              ctra viatores ludificare ſolent. </s>
              <s id="s.013437">Plurimos no­
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              ui, quibus talia contigêre, ſed ſuo loco deſ­
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              cripſi. </s>
              <s id="s.013438">Simili quoque ratione, & mulieres,
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              quas ſtrigas vulgus vocat, inaudita, & inuiſa
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              agitant etiam in vigilia. </s>
              <s id="s.013439">Nam caſtaneis, &
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              radicibus, aquáque veſcuntur, & vallium lo­
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              ca vbi aër turbulentiſſimus eſt, inhabitant.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013440">eiuſdem generis eſt, quod Ariſtoteles refert,
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              quoſdam quòd alios ſuſpendi vidiſſent ani­
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              mo defeciſſe.
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              Mortui ac
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              dæmones na­
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              turaliter vi­
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              deri poſſunt,
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              & quòmodo.</s>
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              Iſlandici cur
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              mortuos vi­
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              deant.</s>
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              Quidam à
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              mortuo ſe
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              oppreſſum
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              exiſtimans
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              moritur.</s>
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              ſeu
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              lamiarum
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              ludibria vn­
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              de.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013445">Septima,
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              problem. </s>
              <s id="s.013446">5.</s>
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              Mortuos vi­
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              dere cum de­
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              lirio in infir
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              mis cur mor­
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              te ſignificet.</s>
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              <s id="s.013448">Ex his igitur apparet, cur in infirmis le­
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              thale ſit ſignum, ſi cum delirio etiam mor­
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              tuos videant. </s>
              <s id="s.013449">Nam tam validam eſſe indicat
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              imaginationem, vt ad oculum etiam tranſla­
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              tus ſpiritus eam retineat, quam ab imagina­
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              tione conceperat ſpeciem. </s>
              <s id="s.013450">At id contingere
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              non poteſt, niſi vel per ſomnum ſilentibus
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              ſenſibus, aut ob morbum nimium illis debi­
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              litatis, aut ob robuſtam cogitationem, vim­
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              que imaginandi. </s>
              <s id="s.013451">Cùm igitur nec dormiant,
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              nec intentè ob debilitatem poſſint imagina­
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              ri, relinquitur, vt quod ſolum eſt, dicamus,
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              iam totam virtutem ſenſitiuam ob imbecil­
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              litatem iacere ocioſam. </s>
              <s id="s.013452">Hoc autem ille idem
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              alibi mortem præſentem ſignificare docuit
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              hac ſententia, dicens: Cùm æger non videt,
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              aut non audit, debili virtute, iam mors proxi­
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              ma eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013453">Aliud etiam eſt præſentis narrationis
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              argumentum, quòd fortes viri rarò, vel nun­
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              quam ſpecta vident: quòd ipſi ob timorem
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              minimè adeò hæc trepida imaginentur: nam
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              ſolet timor, omnibus aliis affectibus firmas
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              imagines in nobis efficere: pòſt, amor. </s>
              <s id="s.013454">Vnde
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              timentium primò hæc ſunt priuilegia, pòſt
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              verò amantium. </s>
              <s id="s.013455">At vident anthropophagi
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              fortiſſimi homines nocturna monſtra? </s>
              <s id="s.013456">Vi­
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              tium eſt regionum ac crudelitatis inanis,
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              cum & alij ibi, qui ab hominum iniuria ab­
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              ſtinent, talia videant. </s>
              <s id="s.013457">Verùm Scythæ, apud
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              quos homines occidere ſacrificium eſt, cùm
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              fortes natura ſint ac inſtitutis, neque mor­
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              tuos, neque lemures vident. </s>
              <s id="s.013458">Similiter nec la­
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              trones. </s>
              <s id="s.013459">Nam mala hæc non natura, talia eſſe
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              videntur, cùm piſces alios ſui generis edant,
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              tum mures, aliáque animalia, ſeu iure gen­
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              tium. </s>
              <s id="s.013460">Quòd & ſi natura hæc mala conſta­
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              rent, id eſt, aduerſus naturæ leges, cum nihil
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              à morte ſuperſit præter intellectum, intelle­
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              ctus autem non poſſit ciere motum, non po­
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              terunt mortui imagines aliquas oſtendere,
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              neque viuentibus terrorem incutere.
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              Echo quid
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              ſit.</s>
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              <s id="s.013462">Tertium vigiliæ genus purum eſt ac ſyn­
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              cerum, in quo tamen multis modis mira vi­
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              dere contingit; velut cùm echo reſonat, tum
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              maximè multiplex contingit, vt quandoque
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              ſepties voces reddat. </s>
              <s id="s.013463">Noctu id mirum in mo­
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              dum, & niſi vulgata res eſſet, quemcunque
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              poſſet perterrefacere, adeò voces perſpicuas
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              ac tardè quandoque reddit. </s>
              <s id="s.013464">Cauſa eſt aër,
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              qui à planis repercutitur, cauiſque: non enim
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              niſi antra ſint aut muri reſonat: reſonat au­
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              tem ex vetuſtis, & magis procul quàm pro­
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              pè. </s>
              <s id="s.013465">Elidi vocem in echo neceſſe eſt, ac plano
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              intermedio referri. </s>
              <s id="s.013466">Et ſublimi loco, & dire­
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              cto melius redditur. </s>
              <s id="s.013467">Si nocte, & aura adeò
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              clarè reſonat, vt quidam amicus noſter cùm
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              iter ageret iuxta flumen, nec vadum ſciret,
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              exclamare cœpit, oh? </s>
              <s id="s.013468">Forſan echo ibi ade­
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              rat, audit oh? </s>
              <s id="s.013469">Ille exiſtimans hominem eſſe,
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              interrogat, vbi locus eſt, quò poſſim tranſire?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013470">audit, tranſire? </s>
              <s id="s.013471">Sed melius lingua Italica res
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              reſpondet. </s>
              <s id="s.013472">Vnde debo paſsà? </s>
              <s id="s.013473">Paſsà? </s>
              <s id="s.013474">Tum ille,
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              qui, qui, id eſt, hîc, hîc. </s>
              <s id="s.013475">At vbi gurges erat, &
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              aquæ mirum in modum ſtrepebant: vnde ille
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              territus
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              interrogat Italicè, Debo paſsà
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              qui? </s>
              <s id="s.013476">Echo reſpondet. </s>
              <s id="s.013477">Paſsà qui. </s>
              <s id="s.013478">Cùm ſæpiùs
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              interrogaret, his verbis reſpondebat. </s>
              <s id="s.013479">Poſitus
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              amicus inter metum, & neceſſitatem ac ad­
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              mirationem, cùm iter facere cogeretur, nox
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              obſcura eſſet, illum vt rebatur ſuadentem
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              tranſire audiret, qua maximè fluctuabat tor­
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              rens, non adnimaduertens ex accentu echo
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              eſſe: nam cùm diceret, Debo paſsà, accentu
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              graui profertur: ſi homo reſpondiſſet, acuto
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              cum accentu reſpondiſſet ſic, Páſſa: ſed echo
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              vt erat, graui referebat, quod acceperat. </s>
              <s id="s.013480">Vn­
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              de cùm nox intempeſta eſſet, reuertitur Au­
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              guſtinus Lauizarius Comenſis, hoc enim illi
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              nomen, hæc patria amico noſtro fuit, qui à
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              ſecretis erat Principis, & à libellis ſenatus.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013481">Cùm verò poſt aliquot dies mihi adoleſcen­
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              ti narraret, ſe fermè à dæmone in torrentem
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              perſuaſione præcipitatum, ego diligentiùs
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              modum inquirere cœpi, agnoſcens hominis
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              ſynceritatem, & integritatem,
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              depre­
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              hendi echo fuiſſe, à qua inter æſtus multos
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              animi, magno cum periculo fuiſſet deceptus.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013482">Igitur cùm multæ ſint, nullibi tamen fre­
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              quentiores, aut clariùs quàm Papiæ. </s>
              <s id="s.013483">Sed è
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              pluribus duas illuſtriores narrare ſufficiat.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013484">Quarum altera eſt iuxta ædem ſacram beati
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              Pauli extra muros, quæ ſimul cum ipſa voce
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              exauditur. </s>
              <s id="s.013485">Nam in tribus probatur echo,
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              quòd ſubitò reſpondeat, quòd longam
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              verborum referat ac perfectè, & quòd
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              ſæpiùs remittente ſono repetat. </s>
              <s id="s.013486">Primam ſyl­
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              labam plerunque omittit, quòd à ſucceden­
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              tium ſono obtundatur: ita fit, vt contraria ra­
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              tione vltima optimè audiatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013487">Directè exa­
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              ctiſſima eliditur, vnde non omnes ex eodem
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              loco excipiunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013488">Nec nimis propè, quoniam
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              adeò celeriter recurrens obſcuratur à vera
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              voce, cuius eſt imago. </s>
              <s id="s.013489">Nec concluſo loco, ob
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              motus aëris confuſionem. </s>
              <s id="s.013490">Melius à vetuſtis
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              muris, non ſolùm ob ſiccitatem, ſed etiam
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              propter aërem in eis contentum. </s>
              <s id="s.013491">Nam con­
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              tentus aër tympani imaginem refert. </s>
              <s id="s.013492">Et ſic­
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              citas ſono idem eſt, quòd lumini, & ima­
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              ginibus ſpeculorum nitor. </s>
              <s id="s.013493">Hæc igitur clari­
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              tate vocis, & celeritate reſponſi adeò admi­
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              rabilis eſt, vt qui eam audierit, deſinat admi­
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              rari, quòd amicus noſter ſe à dæmone ludi­
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              ficari exiſtimauerit. </s>
              <s id="s.013494">Redditur à fruſto anti­
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              qui muri palmorum circiter viginti longi-</s>
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