Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              genter, ac illis nomina accommodaſſe, quod
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                <expan abbr="neq;">neque</expan>
              norunt facere ſapientes? </s>
              <s id="s.015238">Si igitur ab illis
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              erratum eſt, an & nos errare docet cum illis?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015239">finem verò rei atque tractationis, vt diluci­
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              dioris doctrinæ cauſa id fiat, quis culpabit?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015240">Et maximè cùm quid intelligi volumus, de­
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              claramus. </s>
              <s id="s.015241">At his omnibus neceſſitas ipſius
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              rei maior eſt: nam ſi hoc non faciamus? </s>
              <s id="s.015242">no­
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              mina verò recipiamus ſub eiſdem ſignifican­
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              tia, ſub quibus à veteribus accepta ſunt in
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              diuiſione: quædam ſub pluribus diuiſionis
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              membris continebuntur, quædam ſub nullis,
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              vt confuſio maxima ſucceſſura ſit, totáque
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              doctrina euertatur. </s>
              <s id="s.015243">Sin noua nomina ſuppo­
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              nere voluerimus? </s>
              <s id="s.015244">barbara omninò ratio no­
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              ſtra euadet. </s>
              <s id="s.015245">Sin (vt ipſe exiſtimo vellet) per
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              circuitus verborum res ipſæ oſtendantur, in
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              repetendo ſæpius, & prolixitas inutilis,
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              & obſcuritas atque perplexitas ſententiæ
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              euadet. </s>
              <s id="s.015246">An ergo res propter verba relinque­
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              re decuit? </s>
              <s id="s.015247">Quin potiùs vt in exemplo nomi­
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              num recta interpretatio præponenda fuit.
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              <s id="s.015248">Inde liberè proſequi res ipſas, velut ſi dicas,
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              plantę aut
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              ſtipitem, aut non: quæ non,
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              herbæ vocentur, quantumuis magnæ ſint, vt
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              cucurbita. </s>
              <s id="s.015249">Quæ retinent, ſi modum herbarum
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              communem non excedant, vocentur ſuffru­
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              tices, ſi plurimùm creſcant arbores: quæ
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              mediæ, frutices, aut arbuſta. </s>
              <s id="s.015250">Hic quid vi­
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              des abſurdum, aut confuſum, vel obſcurum?
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              </s>
              <s id="s.015251">Ita vbi opus fuit huiuſmodi diuiſionibus
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              nullum alium, qui ſatisfaceret modum,
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              præter hunc inuenire potuimus. </s>
              <s id="s.015252">In quo ta­
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              men non obiter nos geſſimus, ſed quatuor
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              ſeruatis conditionibus, quas ille contradi­
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              cendi ſtudio cæcus non animaduertit. </s>
              <s id="s.015253">Nam
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              non niſi in principalibus generationibus di­
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              uidendis, maximiſque & Latinis ſumptis
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              nominibus, atque ab eo ſignificato minimè
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              abhorrentibus, & propoſita illorum expli­
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              catione: quas qui ſeruauerit, tutò id faciat,
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              per me licebit. </s>
              <s id="s.015254">Inde adducit difficultates ex
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              aizoo, ſaluia, philitide. </s>
              <s id="s.015255">Caulem hîc accipio
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              pro ea parte plantæ, ex qua racematim fun­
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              duntur folia vt in fœniculo, anethóque: vt­
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              que à cauliculo, pediculóve diſtinguuntur,
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              quæ nemo neſcit omnibus fermè herbis
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              etiam philitidi ineſſe, neſcio quomodo ne­
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              get. </s>
              <s id="s.015256">Itaque decuit illum paulò accuratiùs
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              rem tractare, nam quod dicat faſtidium me
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              parere, lectores reprehenſionibus his non
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              minùs tædio afficiuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.015257">Nam & inconſide­
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              ratè legit, & peruersè interpretatur, & futi­
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              lè arguit. </s>
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              <s id="s.015258">140 Sic & ille truncus, eſt ſtipes detrun­
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              catus: truncus intelligitur, cui rami inerant,
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              non ſtipes, ſed minor eſt ac gracilior: de re
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              conſtat, hic nomina habent exquiſitiora:
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              laudo, nos conſuluimus breuitati. </s>
              <s id="s.015259">Sic & il­
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              lud plantæ quædam vrbanæ, id eſt, quæ cul­
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              tu gaudent: nam & frumentum eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.015260">attamen
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              in agris naſcitur, & ſpontè etiam, ſed rarò.
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              <s id="s.015261">Atque hoc diſcrimen cur non approbat,
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              quod Theophraſti eſt, Hipponémque repre­
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              hendit. </s>
              <s id="s.015262">Triticum vix in Scotia prouenit,
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              nam ibi fui: non nego aliqua in parte ob ſi­
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              tum aliquid naſci. </s>
              <s id="s.015263">Acorum, & Iridem ne­
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              mo numerat inter aromata, ſi non magis
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              cyperum. </s>
              <s id="s.015264">Denique illud de pericarpio non
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              animaduertit, fructum putat eſſe fœtum (vi­
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              (vide ſtuporem hominis) non plantam, quæ
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              gignitur. </s>
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              <s id="s.015265">141 De Iacea quomodo cinamono aſſi­
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              miletur odore non intelligo: nam ſi per Ia­
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              ceam vulgarem noſtram, ſeu purpuream vio­
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              lam intelligit, ita lupum cum cuniculo pote­
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              rat comparare, tum maximè, quia de radice
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              loquitur. </s>
              <s id="s.015266">Iaciæ hoc genus quod Latina vox
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              non ſit, nec Græca, niſi iaciam pro Ia intel­
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              ligamus, nullus claſſicus author agnoſcit. </s>
              <s id="s.015267">Sed
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              ipſe ſibi habeat, poſtquam gloriatur de re­
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              bus contentioſis. </s>
              <s id="s.015268">Eſſe enim radicem, quæ ci­
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              namomum oleat, illi credo: veridicum enim
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              exiſtimo, ſed Dioſcoridi notam nego. </s>
              <s id="s.015269">Ad rem
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              ſemper flos eſt radice odoratior: hîc non di­
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              co, ſed non ſemper radix flore. </s>
              <s id="s.015270">Sic & ille
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              error non tolerandus, cùm charæophillon
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              vult eſſe florem eum, qui
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              Græcè vocatur
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              Theophraſto, & Plinio lib. 6. c. 6.
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              odore illum carere, cùm noſter, ob id nomen
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              adeptus ſit, quòd oleat ſuauiſſimè. </s>
              <s id="s.015271">Benè ſit
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              autem huic viro, qui dialecticus, ſophiſta,
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              rhetor, Philoſophus, theologus, grammati­
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              cus, aretalogus, Græcus, pædagogus, mathe­
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              maticus, denique minus eſt, quid faciam huic
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              Proteo? </s>
              <s id="s.015272">qui nouit quid etiam mortui dictu­
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              ri ſint: at tantùm abeſt, vt de Leoniceno
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              maledixerim, vt etiam ipſum in Medicinæ
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              encomio laudauerim. </s>
              <s id="s.015273">De ſiliquaſtro ſecutus
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              ſum Fuchſium, non quòd aliud non ſignifi­
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              cet hoc nomen, ſed quòd ei, cui nomen hoc
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              imponebatur, nullum aliud nomen eſſet.
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              <s id="s.015274">Splendorem eximium, & maximè cum pur­
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              pureo aut fuſco colore, nulli plantæ, aut fru­
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              ctui ineſſe, citra veneni participationem
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              animaduerti, ratioque id docet, ideò non te­
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              merè dictum, immaturum acrius, quia mi­
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              nus concoctum. </s>
              <s id="s.015275">Semper enim inter eiuſdem
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              generis rem comparatio fieri debet, aliter ef­
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              ficax argumentum haud præbet, quod ipſe
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              minimè obſeruat vllibi, vnde fallitur. </s>
              <s id="s.015276">Acria
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              enim humida quædam ſunt, & ea maturitate
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              miteſcunt veluti temperatiora. </s>
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              <s id="s.015277">142. Multa de graui odore nugatur extra
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              propoſitum. </s>
              <s id="s.015278">Debuerat videre, quid per gra­
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              uem odorem intelligam, & nihil ei ſuper­
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              fuiſſet. </s>
              <s id="s.015279">De colore intelligimus herbarum, non
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              lignorum radicum aut fructuum, fatiſque
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              fuit exemplis ipſis declaraſſe: nam quæ ſuc­
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              cum non viridem progignunt, vt dictæ, &
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              chelidonia, omnes venenoſæ qualitatis ſunt
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              participes. </s>
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              <s id="s.015280">143 Inſcitiæ non prima argumenta pro­
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              dit, dum nec tam claram intelligit declara­
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              tionem de ligni ſitu. </s>
              <s id="s.015281">Cæterum fallitur in
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              cauſæ redditione. </s>
              <s id="s.015282">De veſica neque ſcit argu­
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              mentis reſpondere, nam terra obruta non aſ­
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              cendit, ſed argumento ſuo ſe conficit. </s>
              <s id="s.015283">Ratio
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              autem ſua peccat, quia portio aquæ, quæ
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              ſubeſt pilæ æneæ, non eſt grauior ſpecie aë­
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              re, ſed leuior, licet pondere poſſit eſſe ſecùs.
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              <s id="s.015284">Indicio etiam eſt, quod vbique aqua ſubit
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              leuiora, vt aër etiam ſub ipſa terra manet,
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              quantò magis ſub aqua, quæ leuior eſt terra,
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              manere deberet. </s>
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              <s id="s.015285">148 Dicit perire metamorphoſin piperis
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              in hæderam, quòd pediculis, quibus anne­
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              ctatur piper careat? </s>
              <s id="s.015286">oblitus eſt tantus Phi­
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              loſophus ſapientiæ naturæ, quæ omnibus
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              ſerpentibus plantis aliquid addidit, quo </s>
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