Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              ſplendida ingenia, quanta authoritate vixê­
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              re? </s>
              <s id="s.014393">quàm magnifica opera reliquêre? </s>
              <s id="s.014394">Dioge­
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              nes rectè dicere ſolebat: Qui inter pueros
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              ſemper verſatur, à puero parùm differt. </s>
              <s id="s.014395">Num
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              Galenus Ptolemæus, Archimedes, tum ipſe
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              Ariſtoteles dialecticæ parens his argutiolis
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              innituntur? </s>
              <s id="s.014396">aut potius ſolidas declarationes
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              quæſiuêre? </s>
              <s id="s.014397">Deinde quo exemplo rogo tan­
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              tum opus conſcripſit aduerſus noſtros de
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              Subtilitate libros? </s>
              <s id="s.014398">Carpſiſſe aliqua frequens
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              fuit exemplum Ariſtotelis, maximè tum
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              Galeni. </s>
              <s id="s.014399">Totum librum euertere longiſſimo
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              alio libro inuſitata, non ſolùm apud anti­
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              quos, ſed etiam æquales ætate autores, res
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              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.014400">Atque id iure, nam magnus liber ſi ine­
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              ptias continet, ſolùm ſufficere admonuiſſe
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              lectorem, paucis in exemplum reprehenſis:
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              ſin bona
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              vtilia quomodo qui tot nouit,
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              in omnibus potuit aberrare Reprehendit me
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              de Latinitate, atque id iurè, nam de cauſis
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              linguæ Latinæ ſcripſit ipſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014401">Sed tamen de­
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              poſito pignore certabo, neque Grammaticè
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              nedum Latinè ipſum loqui. </s>
              <s id="s.014402">Præcisè, pro ad
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              vnguem, alterat, particulari penetratione,
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              ac innumera eiuſmodi ( vt totus liber his
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              plenus ſit ) penitùs intimæ barbariei argu­
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              menta ſunt. </s>
              <s id="s.014403">Qualis hic cenſor, qualis homi­
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              nis ingenium, quæve amentia? </s>
              <s id="s.014404">cum quæ
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              ipſe admittit, quo totus liber ſuus refertus
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              eſt (eſt enim ab initio ad calcem, vt ſi quis
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              alius, totus planè barbarus ) fruſtrà, & ſine
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              cauſa in aliis reprehenditur? </s>
              <s id="s.014405">quæ tamen
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              etiamſi adeſſent, nonne illud vulgatum ad­
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              monere poterat, Omni carere culpa debe­
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              re eum, qui in alium dicere paratus ſit? </s>
              <s id="s.014406">Ac­
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              cuſat me, quòd ex Agyrtarum impoſturis
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              plurima conuaſarim, tot calumniis atque
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              iniuriis, quot ſunt verba. </s>
              <s id="s.014407">Sed ſit ita, modò
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              quæ ſcripſi vera eſſe fateamur, num putat
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              paruum eſſe an mediocris iudicij vel indu­
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              ſtriæ, vel laboris, aut vulgaris ſapientiæ in­
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              ter tot falſa, paucula vera deprehendere, ſe­
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              ligere, cauſamque illorum adiicere? </s>
              <s id="s.014408">an re­
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              fert vnde veritatem ipſam expiſceris? </s>
              <s id="s.014409">an vt
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              dicebat Veſpaſianus Imperator, aurum ex
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              vrinæ vectigalibus collectum vrinam olet?
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              <s id="s.014410">Ita ergo ( quod tamen à veritate maximè
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              alienum eſt) ſi ex Agyrtarum experimentis
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              pauca ſint adiecta, etiamſi vera ſint, pro im­
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              poſturis habenda ſunt? </s>
              <s id="s.014411">Sed valeant hæc om­
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              nia, nec vllius ſint momenti: duo ſunt, quæ
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              omninò me præpediunt, ne poſſim, etiam ſi
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              velim, illi reſpondere, & quibus vale dicere
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              nequeam: alterum eſt, quòd occupatus ſim
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              nimis in rebus humano generi vtilioribus:
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              nec ſufficiat tempus, quod ab exercitatione
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              medendi ſupereſt his negociis, adeò vt &
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              hoc ipſum paucum quo ſcribo, cogar à cu­
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              randi officio non leui certè damno rei pecu­
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              niariæ ſubtrahere, quantò minùs vt ad reſ­
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              pondendum tam longæ neniæ ſuppetat?
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              <s id="s.014412">Nunc enim tres libros Contradicentium,
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              qui duobus editis proximè ſuccedunt, per­
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              ficio, & quatuor libros de Vrinis nouam
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              prorſus inuentionem, atque innumeris expe­
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              rimentis comprobatam, rem ſanè qua nul­
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              lam aliam ſciam mortalium generi vtilio­
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              rem, per quam multa millia hominum, qui
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              ſecùs perituri forent, ſingulis annis ſerua­
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              buntur, magno medicorum gloriæ incre­
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              mento conſcribo, atque ſimul Hymnum
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              Deo finem hoc anno ſcribendo impoſiturus
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              his libris: quibus cùm nihil maius efficere
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              me potuiſſe fatear, nec maiore diligentia
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              aliud quicquam conſcripſiſſe, coronidem la­
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              boribus meis honeſtiſſimam impoſuiſſe ar­
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              bitror. </s>
              <s id="s.014413">Vno enim eorum corporis ſalubrita­
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              ti, quantum vllo alio libro conſultum eſt:
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              altero animæ tranquillitati ac ſplendori, vt
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              nihil maius excogitare potuerim, cùm etiam
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              in vtroque non dubitem, & induſtria, &
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              diligentia, & rei tractandæ inuentione, &
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              quod omnium maximum eſt, numinis au­
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              xilio ac gratia me ipſum in omnium alio­
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              rum librorum, præterquam Artis paruæ
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              medendi compoſitione, quam etiam anno
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              præcedente perfeci, longo interuallo ſupe­
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              raſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.014414">Nam neque quenquam vel mediocri­
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              ter expertum medicum futurum exiſtimo,
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              qui prælectis his libris intellectis, diligen­
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              terque conſideratis, non quaſi prodigioſas
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              prædictiones atque curas in ſingulis morbis
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              effecturus non ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.014415">Nec quenquam adeò ma­
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              lum, & perfractæ vitæ mortalem, modò in
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              eo aliquid ratio humana poſſit, qui moribus
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              atque pietate optimis aut cuique veritatis
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              egregio amatori ſimillimus non euadat, at­
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              que adeò efficaci vi mutare hominum mo­
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              res poteſt, vt ne boni fiant, ſi qui ſtudent,
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              prorſus ab illius lectione abſtinere cogantur
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              Hæc ſunt commoda, quæ hoc labore, ſupre­
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              mo Deo dante, humano generi præſtiturus
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              ſum. </s>
              <s id="s.014416">An igitur par eſt his relectis ad reſpon­
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              dendum longiſſimæ fabulæ, & maximè in­
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              tricatæ diſputationi me conferre? </s>
              <s id="s.014417">accedit al­
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              terum, quòd ex hac tam longa, quam
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              video contentione, nihil decorum nobis, aut
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              vtile humano generi ſucceſſurum ſpero. </s>
              <s id="s.014418">Sed
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              vt apud Socratem, eia Xantippe, eia Socra­
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              tes dicentes, communiter fabulæ ſpectatores
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              nos irrideant:
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              enim in hac ſua
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              ,
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              niſi tricæ ſophiſmata maledicta, iurgia
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                niæ</expan>
              inueniri poterunt, & tum legendo, tum
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                <expan abbr="reſpondẽdo">reſpondendo</expan>
                <expan abbr="nõ">non</expan>
              ſolùm ego, ſed & lectores ipſi
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              tædio potiùs,
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              voluptate afficiantur. </s>
              <s id="s.014419">Quid
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              ergo cauſæ eſt, vt reſcribam? </s>
              <s id="s.014420">nec enim in re
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              ipſa iuuamur, cum nullum ipſe in tam lon­
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              go opere experimentum adiiciat, quod erat
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              operis ipſius propoſitum, & id, de quo lo­
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              quutus ſum, cum ſucceſſurum aliquem, qui
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              hac tractatione aucturus eſſet, prædixi:
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              nec diſputatio ipſa voluptatem legentibus
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              ſit allatura, vt duorum commodorum, quæ
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              lectio præſtare ſolet, ſcilicet: Vt prodeſſe
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              velint, & delectare Poëtæ: nullum in hac
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              reſponſione ſubſecuturum videam. </s>
              <s id="s.014421">Id etiam
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              tertio loco me à ſcribendo auertit: quod ſi
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              omnibus reſpondere voluero, nimis lon­
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              gum opus conficere nulli vſui futurum co­
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              gar: ſi aliquibus tantum exiſtimabunt in­
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              uidi, quæ prætermiſerim, ob id præter­
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              miſiſſe, quod reſpondere neſciam. </s>
              <s id="s.014422">Et licet
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              exiſtimaturi ſint aliqui me victum, atque
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              certamini imparem? </s>
              <s id="s.014423">ita ſit, malo aliquid
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              amittere, quàm ſpoliari. </s>
              <s id="s.014424">Eſt euulgatus
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              liber ſuus, eſt noſter, lectores facilè iudi­
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              cium ferent. </s>
              <s id="s.014425">Quid ſi me mortuo prodiiſſet
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              liber, vt credidit: nunquid torqueri debeo
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              nunc, ne aliàs in futurum id accidat? </s>
              <s id="s.014426">aut que­
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              ri, quòd non perpetuus ſim, aut tueri </s>
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