Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              cauſa molitus eſt: manifeſtum eſt, quòd
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              imaginatione, & fide conualuit. </s>
              <s id="s.013573">Illud mi­
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              rum eſt, quòd ſi fraude fuit, præmium recu­
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              ſauit: neque enim videtur quorſum hæc
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              fraus, quæ præmium careat, infamia verò
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              res ſuccedat, ſeu non ſuccedat, haud mini­
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              ma defutura ſit? </s>
              <s id="s.013574">Ob id veriſimilius eſt à dæ­
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              mone ſanatam eſſe: dæmonáſque ipſos eſſe
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              ac vagari. </s>
              <s id="s.013575">Mira verò ſunt quæ ad confirman­
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              dam hanc opinionem recitantur à Plutar­
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              cho in initio vitæ Simonis de Damone: item
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              de Pauſania, Cleonicéque, Byzantia virgi.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013576">ne, quam ille imprudens amatam occiderat:
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              tum à Plinio in ſeptimo Epiſtolarum libro
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              de Phantaſmate, quod in domo Athenis per­
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              petuò videbatur: de pueris etiam quibus ca­
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              pilli abſque authore vllo præciſi erant. </s>
              <s id="s.013577">Rur­
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              ſus apud Suetonium in Caligula occiſo, cuius
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              domus per multos annos oſtentis inquietata
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              eſt, donec incendio abſumpta fuit. </s>
              <s id="s.013578">Refert
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              M. </s>
              <s id="s.013579">Paulus Venetus, Tartaros (olim pars Scy­
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              tharum, pars Parthorum nomine intellige­
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              batur) adeò pollere dæmonum præſtigiis, vt
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              tenebras cùm velint, & vbi velint inducant,
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              ſemélque à latronibus hac arte circumuen­
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              tum, vix euaſiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.013580">Cui rei teſtis accedit vir
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              grauis Haitonus, in ſua Sarmatarum hiſto­
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              ria, qui prælio etiam inclinatam aciem
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              Tartarorum vexillarij præcantatione, dum
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              tenebras offunderet obſcuriſſimas, reſti­
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              tutam & victricem factam litteris prodi­
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              derit. </s>
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              Dæmonas
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              eſſe,
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                tis</expan>
              ab hiſto­
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              ria ſumptis
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              oſtenditur.</s>
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              <s id="s.013582">Verùm omnibus hiſtoriis magis admira­
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              bilem hîc ſubiiciam, quàm non ſemel, nec
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              paucis vicibus audiui à patre meo, Facio
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              Cardano, qui dæmonem ſe familiarem per
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              30. fermè annos habuiſſe confitebatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013583">De­
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              mum cùm illius ſcripta requirerem, quòd
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              ſæpius audieram, ita literis ac memoriæ man­
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              datum inueni. </s>
              <s id="s.013584">Idibus Auguſti, 1491. cùm
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              peregiſſem ſacra hora diei 20. apparuerunt
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              de more ſeptem viri, ſericeis induti veſtibus,
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              pallio quaſi Græco, caligis ( vt videbatur)
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              purpureis, ſubuculæ thoracibus ſplendenti­
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              bus ac rubentibus, vt è chermeſino eſſe vi­
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              derentur, forma auguſtiore, quàm commu­
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              ni, & conſpicua admodum. </s>
              <s id="s.013585">Nec tamen om­
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              nes ſic veſtiti, ſed duo, quos conſtabat eſſe
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              nobiliores inter ipſos: nam illorum alterum,
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              qui procerior erat & rubicundus, duo alij
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              ſequebantur comites: alterum qui pallidior
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              eſſet ac minor corpore, tres alij. </s>
              <s id="s.013586">Ita om­
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              nes ſeptem erant. </s>
              <s id="s.013587">Capiti ne quid haberent
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              impoſitum, an nudum eſſet, ſcriptum non
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              reliquit. </s>
              <s id="s.013588">Ætas illis iuxta quadrageſimum
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              annum, ſed quæ nec trigeſimum perferret.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013589">Cùm interrogarentur, quinam eſſent, re­
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              ſponderunt, homines eſſe quaſi aëreos, qui
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              & ipſi naſcerentur, ac interirent: verùm vi­
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              tam illorum noſtra eſſe longè diuturniorem,
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              vt quæ ad annos 300. extenderentur. </s>
              <s id="s.013590">Inter­
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              roganti de animæ immortalitate noſtræ, ni­
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              hil quòd cuique proprium eſſet, ſupereſſe
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              affirmarunt. </s>
              <s id="s.013591">Ipſos diuis eſſe coniunctiores
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              multò humano genere, ſed tamen ab illis
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              infinito penè diſtare interuallo. </s>
              <s id="s.013592">Nec ſecus
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              illos nobis, aut beatiores eſſe, aut miſerio­
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              res, ac nos ipſis ſumus belluis. </s>
              <s id="s.013593">Nihil late­
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              re abditarum rerum, vt nec libros, aut pe­
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              cunias: infimámque illorum colluuiem eſſe
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              genios virorum nobiliſſimorum, non ſecùs
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              ac homines viliſſimos generoſorum canum,
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              aut equorum educatores. </s>
              <s id="s.013594">Cúmque ipſi te­
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              nuiſſimo eſſent corpore, nihil nobis com­
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              modi, aut detrimenti poſſe afferre præter
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              ſpectra atque terrores, tum ſcientiam. </s>
              <s id="s.013595">Erant
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              alteri, qui minore erat corpore, 300. diſci­
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              puli, alteri 200. in publica academia. </s>
              <s id="s.013596">Vter­
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              que enim eorum publicè profitebatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013597">Cùm
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              pater meus interrogaſſet, cur ſi theſauros
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              noſſent, ipſi non reuelarent hominibus?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013598">Reſponderunt, ſancitum eſſe hoc priuata
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              lege maximis pœnis, ne quiſquam hoc eis
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              communicet. </s>
              <s id="s.013599">Manſerunt apud illum horis
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              plus quàm tribus: diſputarunt autem inte­
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              rim, rogante illo de cauſa mundi: qui pro­
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              cerior erat, negabat Deum effeciſſe mun­
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              dum ab æterno: contrà alter aſtruebat per
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              ſingula momenta ita Deum creare mundum,
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              vt ſi vel momento deſiſteret, protinus mun­
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              dus ipſe periret. </s>
              <s id="s.013600">Ad hoc ipſe ex Auerrois di­
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              ſputationibus quædam adducebat, cùm liber
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              ille nondum inuentus eſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.013601">Referebat &
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              nomina quorundam librorum, quorum pars
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              inuenta, pars adhuc latitat. </s>
              <s id="s.013602">Atque hi om­
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              nes tamen Auerrois erant: ille verò palàm
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              Auerroiſtam ſe profitebatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013603">Hæc ſeu hi­
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              ſtoria, ſeu fabula ſit, ita ſe habuit. </s>
              <s id="s.013604">Quòd
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              fabula videatur, ſatis argumento eſſe debet,
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              quòd placita hæc non ſatis cum religione
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              conſentiunt, quodque pater meus cum ſuis
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              dæmonibus nihilo, aut felicior, aut ditior,
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              aut notior hominibus fuerit, quàm ego, qui
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              dæmonas nunquam vidi. </s>
              <s id="s.013605">Ad hæc tamen
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              ille reſponderet, plura ſe prædixiſſe, quæ
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              ſine ope dæmonum tanto tempore antè ſci­
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              ri non poterant: vt, quòd Cæſar tandem
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              ſuperior futurus eſſet in Italia, quod vix
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              contingit poſt 30. annos: dæmonas eſſe
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              mendaces iuxta veritatis verbum, ille ( in­
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              quit ) eſt pater mendaceij: ſe minimè cu­
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              raſſe diuitias, aut honores, quarum rerum
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              ego ſim magis cupidus: natum eſſe humili
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              fortuna ipſum, obfuiſſéque initia prima. </s>
              <s id="s.013606">De­
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              nique genium forſan mihi eſſe maiorem,
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              tum aliis longè magis, tametſi illis neque
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              mihi hi ſe oſtendant, non deeſſe tamen pro
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              opportunitate vnicuique ſuum ad auxilium.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013607">Suum ſe ſibi, non alios aliis manifeſtaſſe,
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              vel quòd ita expediret, vel quod melior
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              eſſet, ac mente puriore: optimus quippe
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              erat, ac præter hæc, & poſt hæc etiam, reli­
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              gioſiſſimus: ſeu quod coniuratione, quàm
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              habuiſſe à moriente Hiſpano conſtat, vſus
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              fuerit. </s>
              <s id="s.013608">Simile eſt illud quod de pueris, &
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              vrceis, aut vnguibus dicitur. </s>
              <s id="s.013609">Aliàs hæc vt
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              falſa deprehenſa refutauimus. </s>
              <s id="s.013610">Solùm id mi­
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              rum videtur, quod Didio Iuliano Impera­
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              tori contigit, cùm puer è ſpeculo prædiceret
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              hoſtes venientes, & à quibus interficere­
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              tur. </s>
              <s id="s.013611">Et nunc Ioannes Leo recitat, in vrbe
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              Feſſa vates in vas aqua plenum olei gut­
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              tam infundere, qua clara reddita per puel­
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              los reſponſa de futuris dare, qui turmas
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              etiam militum in aqua videre ſe affirment.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013612">Non tamen ille plus quàm quod & hîc
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              vulgus ſcire ſe refert: aut diligentius rem
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              inquiſiſſe. </s>
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              Dæmonum
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              ſeptem hiſto­
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              ria mira.</s>
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              Didio Iulia­
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              no è ſpeculo
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              à puero exi­
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              tium prædi­
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              ctum.</s>
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              <s id="s.013615">Sunt rurſus & alia argumenta dæmo­
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              num, oraculorum reſponſa: velut illud Theo-</s>
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