Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              aquea parte. </s>
              <s id="s.001523">Hæc autem vel ignibus, vt in
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              pane: & pinguedine, quæ cocta non putreſ­
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              cit: vel ſi humidum paucum ſit, vt in ſali­
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              ta carne, frigido, & ſicco ſeruatur, qua­
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              lis eſt aër dum mouetur. </s>
              <s id="s.001524">Nam aër cùm mo­
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              uetur, frigidus eſt, & ſiccus: frigidus qui­
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              dem ob naturam, ſiccus ob motum: motus
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              enim exciccat. </s>
              <s id="s.001525">Ob hoc igitur aër immotus
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              corrumpit, quia humectat, nec tantùm,
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              quantum neceſſe eſt refrigerat: dum autem
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              mouetur, conſeruat, exccicans ob motum,
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              & vehementer refrigerans. </s>
              <s id="s.001526">Multa ergo cùm
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              aër exponuntur, corrumpuntur, quæ aliter
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              incorrupta manebant: alia ſeruantur, quæ
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              abſque aëris auxilio corrumperentur. </s>
              <s id="s.001527">Itaque
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              non ſolùm hæc, ſed alia, quæ inferiùs di­
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              centur, à putredine ſeruantur. </s>
              <s id="s.001528">A rancore au­
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              tem & carie humida tuentur, & quæ aëris
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              motum prohibent: nam ab hoc ſiccantur.
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              <s id="s.001529">Sed talia cùm ſint immodicè calida, vel ſic­
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              ca, licet à putredine ignis auxilio præſerua­
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              rentur, corrumperentur tamen abſque pu­
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              tredine. </s>
              <s id="s.001530">De putredinis igitur cauſis ac gene­
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              ribus, & auxiliis ſatis dictum eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001531">Reliquum
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              eſt igitur vt doceamus, ipſi Sacro liquori,
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              de quo ſuprà diximus, nihil Elixir propin­
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              quius eſſe, quod pater meus conſtruxit. </s>
              <s id="s.001532">O­
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              dorata pleraque ligna, & herbæ ardente
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              aqua excipiuntur, & in fimo ſepulta ſemi
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              putreſcunt, vnde
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              (
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              vt dictum eſt ) tenuior
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              pars à terrea ſeparatur, inde diſtillatione
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              optimum quicquid eſt fæce ſola relicta de­
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              trahimus. </s>
              <s id="s.001533">Dentes hoc firmant, & canos
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              retardat, concoctionem, memoriam, &
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              ſenſus iuuat, Sacro liquore, tametſi plures
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              in mediam prouehat ſenectam, longè in­
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              feriùs.
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              Saporum na­
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              tura.</s>
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              Quatuor eſſe
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              genera pu­
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              trednis de­
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              monſtratur.</s>
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              Aer cur cor­
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              rumpat quæ­
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              dam, alia
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              ſeruet.</s>
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            <p type="margin">
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              Elixir com­
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              poſitio.</s>
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              Putridi, &
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              ignei caloris
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              differentia.</s>
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              <s id="s.001539">At dices, ſi putridus calor corrumpit,
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              cur etiam non igneus, cùm eiuſdem ſit ge­
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              neris? </s>
              <s id="s.001540">Hoc eſt, quia igneus exterior eſt,
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              putridus autem intimus: ob hoc igneus cùm
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              ad ſe trahat, & ſiccando, trahendo ſiccat
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              interiora, & putredinem prohibet. </s>
              <s id="s.001541">Putri­
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              dus quamvis ſiccet, cùm intimus ſit, & ad
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              ſe trahat
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              (
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              omnis enim calor ad ſe trahit
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              )
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              interiora humectat, & putrefacit. </s>
              <s id="s.001542">Putridus
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              igitur cum igneo conuenit, quòd & ipſe ſic­
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              cet, & generet: & cum naturali, quòd in
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              penetralibus iaceat, & corrumpat. </s>
              <s id="s.001543">Ob id
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              putridus calor, medius rectè dictus à qui­
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              buſdam inter igneum, & naturalem. </s>
              <s id="s.001544">Nam
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              ſubſtantia ſimilis eſt igneo, ſitu in compa­
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              ratione ad alimentum naturali: nam ſemper
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              igneus extra alimentum poſitus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.001545">Sed di­
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              ces, cur putridus calor veneni auctor eſt,
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              igneus omnibus reſiſtit venenis
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              ?
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              Nam vul­
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              nera ex venenatis animalibus profecta, ſi
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                denti</expan>
              ferro vrantur, expertia fiunt: & me­
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              dicamenta quælibet cùm vruntur, & in ci­
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              nerem rediguntur, venenum eſſe deſinunt:
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              ſublimata autem ( ſic enim nunc quæ anti­
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              quo tempore cocta vocabantur ) vt ſæpiùs
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              cocta fuerint, eò fiunt pernicioſiora, & ma­
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              gis præſentanea ad mortem. </s>
              <s id="s.001546">Ratio eadem
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              eſt in putredine, & his quæ ſublimantur:
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              nam vbi calor augetur, & humidum non
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              finitur, vt in his, quæ coquuntur, aut pu­
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              treſcunt, veneni vis exacerbatur: vbi verò
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              vruntur, quum omnis humida pars pereat,
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              & ſimul finiatur caliditas, vt in cinere, ne­
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              ceſſe eſt, & veneni vim totam abſcedere.
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              <s id="s.001547">Non abſurdè igitur quidam argento viuo
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              ſublimato peſtem curabat, nam vi ignea
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              omne venenum finitur. </s>
              <s id="s.001548">Sic apud Auſonium
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              rectè:
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              Toxica zelotypo dedit vxor mœcha marito,
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              Nec ſatis ad mortem credidit eſſe
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              Miſcuit argenti lethalia pondera viui,
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              Cogeret vt celerem vis geminata necem.
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              Ignis omni
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              veneno reſi­
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              ſtit.</s>
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              Peſtis cura
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              cum argento
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              ſublimato.</s>
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              <s id="s.001551">Inde poſt pauca ſubiicit:
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              Ergo inter ſeſe, dum noxia pocula certant,
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              Ceſſit lethalis noxa ſalutiferæ.
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              <s id="s.001552">Nam ( vt dixi ) argentum viuum ſubli­
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              matum, ignis habet rationem. </s>
              <s id="s.001553">Verunta­
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              men qui peſtem ſic curabat, plures medica­
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              mento occidebat, quàm ſanaret. </s>
              <s id="s.001554">Si igitur
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              innoxium, & igneum medicamentum pa­
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              retur, curare poterit. </s>
              <s id="s.001555">Illud tamen quale­
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              cunque fuerit, vt etiam calida lintea exte­
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              riùs appoſita, calorem debilitat naturalem.
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              <s id="s.001556">At contraria ratione puellus, aut catulus
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              pinguis ventriculo applicatus, iuuat mul­
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              tùm concoctionem, & calorem auget natu­
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              ralem, quamvis non ſit idem calor, imò
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              à catuli calore etiam ſpecie differt. </s>
              <s id="s.001557">Ma­
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              nifeſtum eſt igitur naturalem calorem,
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              cùm non offenditur ab alio naturali ca­
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              lore, motu, vt igneum ab igneo confir­
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              mari. </s>
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                <expan abbr="Confirmãtia">Confirmantia</expan>
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              calorem in­
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              natum ven­
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              triculi.</s>
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              <s id="s.001559">His explicatis ad elementorum hiſtoriam
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              redeamus, quæ tria eſſe docuimus, aërem,
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              aquam, terram. </s>
              <s id="s.001560">Nec neceſſe fuit aërem
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              miſceri in generatione, quoniam calor ad
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              patiendum minimè aptus eſt: concurrunt
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              elementa vt materia, ideò terra & aqua ſuf­
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              ficiebant. </s>
              <s id="s.001561">Sed nec vt calefacerent, quando­
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              quidem alius calor fuit neceſſarius origine
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              cœleſtis, & ille etiam operi ſufficiebat, cum
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              duobus caloribus, veluti duobus principi­
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              bus deteriùs res proceſſura fuiſſet, nec ele­
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              menta frigida alieno calori, elementique
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              contrarij paruiſſent. </s>
              <s id="s.001562">Quinimò pugna quæ­
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              dam hæc fuiſſet, non generatio. </s>
              <s id="s.001563">Admirabi­
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              tur forſan aliquis, quòd in contradicen­
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              tium libris aliter ſenſerim. </s>
              <s id="s.001564">Sed vbi opinio­
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              nes antiquorum ſequi propoſitum fuit, hîc
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              verò docere veritatem. </s>
              <s id="s.001565">Cuius igitur cauſa
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              elementum aëris factum eſt? </s>
              <s id="s.001566">Vt ſubiicere­
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              tur radiis ſiderum, illorúmque vires excipe­
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              ret: adeò excipit, vt in repentinis mutatio­
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              nibus non ſolùm animalia, ſed etiam plan­
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              tas occidat, velut hoc anno M. D. XLIX.
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              triduò citrangula omnia Liguriæ ſiccauit,
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              prodigio non leui. </s>
              <s id="s.001567">Cauſa eſt, quòd calori ſu­
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              perueniens corpora tàm plantarum, quàm
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              animalium aperta offendit, & calorem, qui
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              intùs eſt, extinguit: non ita diuturnum
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              frigus, quod ſenſim obrepit, licet maius
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              longè fuerit. </s>
              <s id="s.001568">Hoc verò contingere non poſ­
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              ſet, ſi ( vt ferunt) ſpontè eſſet calidiſſimus.
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              <s id="s.001569">Ob id verò & perſpicuus factus eſt, & fri­
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              gidiſſimus, vt animalibus eſſet ſalubris, &
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              commodus, non vt nugantur, calidiſſimus
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              & humidiſſimus. </s>
              <s id="s.001570">Quod verò ad confirmatio­
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              nem huius ſententiæ eſt, arduámque diſſol­
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              uit quæſtionem, eſt, quòd exhalantes toto
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              ore aërem excalefaciunt: quòd ſi conſtrictis
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              labiis exſufflent, infrigidant. </s>
              <s id="s.001571">Cauſam enim
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              hanc non aliam eſſe conſpicuum eſt, quàm
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              quòd cùm ſpontè ſit frigidus, cum impetu </s>
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