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<s id="s.006527">Itaque ex lacte for&longs;an equo<lb/>rum id contingit. </s>

<s id="s.006528">Cæterùm quid amplius <lb/>dubitandum? </s>

<s id="s.006529">omnis aqua cùm &longs;æpiùs di<lb/>&longs;tillatur, hoc pote&longs;t efficere: nam incale&longs;<lb/>cit, attenuatur, & vim ignis magis reci<lb/>pit: vnde ardens &longs;æpiùs di&longs;tillata eò acui<lb/>tatis deducitur, vt bibi non po&longs;&longs;it. </s>

<s id="s.006530">Li<lb/>quet igitur ex his mamfe&longs;tè, & quòd <lb/>vinum igneam vim habet, & quòd ex <lb/>omni fermè re, tum maximè den&longs;a, po<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg920"/><lb/>tus repetita di&longs;tillatione fieri pote&longs;t, qui <lb/>plus vino excalefaciet & inebriabit. </s>

<s id="s.006530">Li<lb/>quet igitur ex his manife&longs;tè, & quòd <lb/>vinum igneam vim habet, & quòd ex <lb/>omni fermè re, tum maximè den&longs;a, po<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg920"/><lb/>tus repetita di&longs;tillatione fieri pote&longs;t, qui <lb/>plus vino excalefaciet & inebriabit. </s>

<s id="s.006531">Potus <lb/>enim ratio e&longs;t, vt &longs;uauis &longs;it atque potens: <lb/>&longs;uauitate quidem gu&longs;tum, robore olfactum <lb/>delectat, & ventriculum confirmat. </s>

<s id="s.006532">Quæ<lb/>cunque verò di&longs;tillantur, & iucunda, & <lb/>odorata euadunt: iucunda quidem, in&longs;uaui <lb/>omni &longs;ublata parte: odorata, ob vim ignis, <lb/>& acuitatem &longs;ub&longs;tantiæ. </s>

<s id="s.006533">Quæ enim tenuium <lb/>&longs;unt partium, magis redolent: odor enim <lb/>e&longs;t vaporis, vapor autem in tenui &longs;ub&longs;tan<lb/>tia fundatur. </s>

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<s id="s.006543">Modus alius nobilioris potus, radio&longs;que, <lb/>veluti <expan abbr="cãdens">candens</expan> ferrum emittentis. </s>

<s id="s.006544">Zethi par<lb/>tes quatuor, mellis vnam, &longs;eminum myrti <lb/>mediam: &longs;imul excoquuntur ac de&longs;puman<lb/>tur, donec &longs;puma e&longs;&longs;e de&longs;ierit: inde additur <lb/>zethi fex, & quadraginta horis contecta <lb/>&longs;eruantur. </s>

<s id="s.006544">Zethi par<lb/>tes quatuor, mellis vnam, &longs;eminum myrti <lb/>mediam: &longs;imul excoquuntur ac de&longs;puman<lb/>tur, donec &longs;puma e&longs;&longs;e de&longs;ierit: inde additur <lb/>zethi &longs;ex, & quadraginta horis contecta <lb/>&longs;eruantur. </s>

<s id="s.006545">In vulgari Medone, pro zetho <lb/>tantundem aquæ a&longs;&longs;umitur, cætera vt in <lb/>nobiliore. </s>

<s id="s.006546">Sed & &longs;eminum myrti loco lupu<lb/>li &longs;emina a&longs;&longs;umuntur: quæ & &longs;eor&longs;um co<lb/>quuntur, modus donec amaritas non in&longs;ua<lb/>uis &longs;entiatur. </s>

<s id="s.006547">Hic &longs;æpiùs repetitis iudicibus, <lb/>&longs;en&longs;ibus, ratione magi&longs;tra, odor, vires, ac &longs;ua<lb/>uitas comparantur. </s>

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<s id="s.006575">Fiunt enim ex cotoneis, punicis, pyris, </s>

<s id="s.006576"><arrow.to.target n="marg925"/><lb/>malis, prunis, berberis, moris, præ&longs;ertim a<lb/>gre&longs;tibus, me&longs;pilis, &longs;orbis, & generaliter ex <lb/>omni fructu &longs;uauem &longs;uccum, &longs;alubrem, & <lb/>qui &longs;eruari po&longs;&longs;it habente. </s>

<s id="s.006576"><arrow.to.target n="marg925"/><lb/>malis, prunis, herberis, moris, præ&longs;ertim a<lb/>gre&longs;tibus, me&longs;pilis, &longs;orbis, & generaliter ex <lb/>omni fructu &longs;uauem &longs;uccum, &longs;alubrem, & <lb/>qui &longs;eruari po&longs;&longs;it habente. </s>

<s id="s.006577">Nam qui &longs;eruari <lb/>non pote&longs;t, quum clare&longs;cere nequeat, vinum <lb/>fieri non pote&longs;t: vnde neque ex cera&longs;o, nec <lb/>per&longs;ico. </s>

<s id="s.006578">Ob id zinziber, piper, garyophylos, <lb/>cinamomum, macerem, nucemque myri&longs;ti<lb/>cam addere &longs;olent. </s>

<s id="s.006579">Qui autem &longs;ucci ad me<lb/>tam coquuntur, &longs;eruantur: &longs;ed dum &longs;pi&longs;&longs;e&longs;<lb/>cunt, neque potus &longs;unt, nedum vinum: erunt <lb/>ergo defruta. </s>

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<s id="s.006586">Vidi reconditum annis &longs;eptuaginta antè, <lb/>quod ex vigintiquinque amphoris, ad quin<lb/>decim redierat, pallidum ex nigro eua&longs;erat, <lb/>eoque ardente aqua &longs;uauius, quo infirmius. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.006587">Vtile crudis humoribus, frigidi&longs;que ac hu<lb/>midis morbis. </s>

<s id="s.006588">Audio Lubicen&longs;em Sena<lb/>tum gloriari, quòd Rhenen&longs;ia vina du<lb/>centorum annorum in penubus &longs;eruet. </s>

<s id="s.006589">Olim <lb/>Falerno, inde Surrentino, pò&longs;t Setino pre<lb/>cium maximum, quòd alioqui egragia & <lb/>chara, in multos annos conderentur. </s>

<s id="s.006589">Olim <lb/>Falerno, inde Surrentino, pò&longs;t Setino pre<lb/>cium maximum, quòd alioqui egregia & <lb/>chara, in multos annos conderentur. </s>

<s id="s.006590">Tran<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg927"/><lb/>&longs;eunt & vina nigra in candida, ami&longs;&longs;o etiam <lb/>&longs;apore odoreque, percolata lapide Indico: <lb/>nam cra&longs;&longs;ior pars ac nigra retinetur in lapi<lb/>de: quod tran&longs;it, immutatur ab egregia il<lb/>lius frigiditate. </s>

<s id="s.006591">Marmoris igitur genus e&longs;&longs;e <lb/>oportet. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg928"/></s>

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<s id="s.006692"><margin.target id="marg942"/>Vmbræ quàm <lb/>&longs;alutares, & <lb/>quàm morti<lb/>feræ. </s>

<s id="s.006693">Sunt & arborum vires etiam ex vmbra <lb/>admirabiles: exitiales namque (vt diximus) <lb/>toxico, iuglandi, tithymalo, adultæ ficui, <lb/>&longs;orbo indicæ, aconito, taxo, rhododaphni: <lb/>hæc arbos apud nos frequens fructum, <lb/>ca&longs;&longs;is nigræ, non amygdalæ &longs;imilem fert: <lb/>geniculis &longs;tipes abundat: quod cùm Dio&longs;<lb/>corides prætermi&longs;erit, in fructu verò de<lb/>ceptus &longs;it, effecit, vt hanc quam habe<lb/>mùs, rhododapgnen e&longs;&longs;e non exi&longs;timarem: <lb/>verùm ob fructus &longs;imilitudinem, ca&longs;&longs;iam <lb/>nigram: at ca&longs;&longs;iam non e&longs;&longs;e con&longs;tat, &longs;ed <lb/>cùm iumentis, ouibus, capris, &longs;uibus, <lb/>folio, ac flore exitialis &longs;it, cuperem de his <lb/>&longs;ententiam eorum, qui in minimis adeò <lb/>&longs;unt curio&longs;i, audire: nam & hominibus <lb/>( vt dixi ) noxia e&longs;t, licet haud exitialis. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.006693">Sunt & arborum vires etiam ex vmbra <lb/>admirabiles: exitiales namque (vt diximus) <lb/>toxico, iuglandi, tithymalo, adultæ ficui, <lb/>&longs;orbo indicæ, aconito, taxo, rhododaphni: <lb/>hæc arbos apud nos frequens fructum, <lb/>ca&longs;&longs;is nigræ, non amygdalæ &longs;imilem fert: <lb/>geniculis &longs;tipes abundat: quod cùm Dio&longs;<lb/>corides prætermi&longs;erit, in fructu verò de<lb/>ceptus &longs;it, effecit, vt hanc quam habe<lb/>mùs, rhododaphnen e&longs;&longs;e non exi&longs;timarem: <lb/>verùm ob fructus &longs;imilitudinem, ca&longs;&longs;iam <lb/>nigram: at ca&longs;&longs;iam non e&longs;&longs;e con&longs;tat, &longs;ed <lb/>cùm iumentis, ouibus, capris, &longs;uibus, <lb/>folio, ac flore exitialis &longs;it, cuperem de his <lb/>&longs;ententiam eorum, qui in minimis adeò <lb/>&longs;unt curio&longs;i, audire: nam & hominibus <lb/>( vt dixi ) noxia e&longs;t, licet haud exitialis. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.006694">Salutares verò loto, fago, & Indicæ ho<lb/>bio. </s>

<s id="s.006695">Quibus ob odorem vtilis, vt ro&longs;æ, <lb/>myrto, nardo, malo medico, iunipero, ve<lb/>lut mala buxo. </s>

<s id="s.006696">Certauit & in his colorum <lb/>varietate laudati&longs;&longs;imum bra&longs;ilium, alij ver<lb/>zinum vocant. </s>

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<s id="s.006703"><arrow.to.target n="marg945"/><lb/>Arabica. </s>

<s id="s.006704">Con&longs;ueui & aliter parare: lignum <lb/>in tenui&longs;&longs;ima fila deductum &longs;eco in fru&longs;tula, <lb/>quæ aquæ decuplo pondere immitto, relin<lb/>quens infu&longs;um horis &longs;altem &longs;ex, inde exco<lb/>quitur aqua cum ligno, donec tres è qua<lb/>tuor partibus decedant, fitque colos ru<lb/>beus, &longs;plendidus: &longs;i paulò plus exco<lb/>quas, &longs;anguineus ruber: &longs;i adhue diutiùs, <lb/>cæruleus. </s>

<s id="s.006705">Neutro tamen modo, ni protinus <lb/>in v&longs;um admittatur, diu &longs;eruari pote&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.006706">Pro<lb/>prium e&longs;t enim omnibus coloribus, qui è <lb/>plantarum fiunt partibus, tempore muta<lb/>ri, nec purum omninò e&longs;&longs;e, quòd materia <lb/>plantarum imbecillis &longs;it, & humoris plena. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.006707">Vnde ex eadem planta, Indi omnes colores <lb/>coquendo diutiùs, aut breuiori tempore <lb/>excipiunt. </s>

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<s id="s.006722">Sic &longs;uccus limunij colorem in coriis al<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg947"/><lb/>terna varietate mutans commendat: nam <lb/>priorem dum vitiat, retento nitore, va<lb/>rium dicitur reddere, non maculo&longs;um. </s>

<s id="s.006723">Sunt <lb/>& cannarum Indicarum radices varietate <lb/>coloris ac nitore gratæ. </s>

<s id="s.006724">Atque in om<lb/>nibus his præ&longs;tant arborum, quæ in mon<lb/>tibus na&longs;cuntur, his quæ in humiliori<lb/>ribus locis. <pb pagenum="498" xlink:href="016/01/147.jpg"/><arrow.to.target n="marg948"/></s>

<s id="s.006724">Atque in om<lb/>nibus his præ&longs;tant arborum, quæ in mon<lb/>tibus na&longs;cuntur, his quæ in humiliori<lb/>bus locis. <pb pagenum="498" xlink:href="016/01/147.jpg"/><arrow.to.target n="marg948"/></s>

<s id="s.006725"><margin.target id="marg947"/>Coria vt va<lb/>rium color<lb/>recipiant.</s>

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<s id="s.006755">Cùm verò &longs;al<lb/>&longs;us &longs;apor &longs;olus erodat, plantæ verò tardè <lb/>eiiciant excrementa, ob id vix fieri po<lb/>te&longs;t, vt planta egregiè &longs;al&longs;a &longs;it: humida enim <lb/>e&longs;t, & &longs;al&longs;um erodit humida, vt etiam <lb/>in animalibus videmus, quæ à &longs;olo humo<lb/>re &longs;aporem hunc præferente eroduntur & <lb/>exeduntur. </s>

<s id="s.006756">Quædam verò plantæ cùm non <lb/>vehementer &longs;al&longs;am ferant terram, vt ci<lb/>trangula, limunia, mala medica, &longs;i non <lb/>&longs;æpiùs aqua perfundantur, are&longs;cunt &longs;ta<lb/>tim, quoniam non mite&longs;cens &longs;al&longs;ugo plan<lb/>tam illicò perimit. </s>

<s id="s.006757">Accedit quòd cùm om<lb/>nes &longs;apores in tenui po&longs;&longs;int e&longs;&longs;e &longs;ub&longs;tan<lb/>tia, præter &longs;al&longs;um, tenue alimentum &longs;o<lb/>lùm trahente planta, omnes &longs;apores <lb/>etiam trahere poterit, præter &longs;al&longs;um. </s>

<s id="s.006758">Sal<lb/>&longs;ugo etiam imbecillima e&longs;t &longs;aporum: <lb/>nam multa quantitas &longs;alis, vt aqua &longs;al&longs;a <lb/>reddatur, e&longs;t nece&longs;&longs;aria: cùm igitur & pa<lb/>rum nutriat quod &longs;al&longs;um e&longs;t, & diffici<lb/>lè trahatur, quia cra&longs;&longs;um, & multum <lb/>offendat, & parum gu&longs;tum afficiat, ne<lb/>ce&longs;&longs;e e&longs;t paucas plantas, ac quæ tales &longs;it, <lb/>tenuiter &longs;ai&longs;as videri. </s>

<s id="s.006759">Nutrit tamen Indi<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg954"/><lb/>cum mare &longs;al&longs;am herbam, quam vocant <lb/>&longs;algazum, quæ in eius &longs;uperficie perpe<lb/>tuò natat, adeoque copio&longs;am, vt floren<lb/>tia prata referat: nam viridis partim e&longs;t, <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg955"/><lb/>partim crocea: alitur tamen non &longs;al&longs;o, &longs;ed <lb/>( vt dixi ) gingui humido, quod &longs;ali con<lb/>iunctum e&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.006759">Nutrit tamen Indi<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg954"/><lb/>cum mare &longs;al&longs;am herbam, quam vocant <lb/>&longs;algazum, quæ in eius &longs;uperficie perpe<lb/>tuò natat, adeoque copio&longs;am, vt floren<lb/>tia prata referat: nam viridis partim e&longs;t, <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg955"/><lb/>partim crocea: alitur tamen non &longs;al&longs;o, &longs;ed <lb/>( vt dixi ) gingni humido, quod &longs;ali con<lb/>iunctum e&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.006760">No&longs;trum quoque mare mol<lb/>li&longs;&longs;imum herbæ genus alit, algam voca<lb/>tum, quæ &longs;imili ratione relicta &longs;al&longs;ugi<lb/>ne, nutritur ex pingui, quare & vere <lb/>pullulat, & æ&longs;tate viret, & hyeme emo<lb/>ritur, ob id etiam quòd ex pingui alatur <lb/>ferendis vrceis accommodata, vnde in <lb/>illa &longs;epulta va&longs;a vitrea Veneti ad nos <lb/>tran&longs;mittunt. </s>

<s id="s.006761">E&longs;t & coralina, mu&longs;ci ma<lb/>rini genus, egregiè &longs;al&longs;a, &longs;ed in exte<lb/>riore &longs;uperficie tantùm: vnde cùm man&longs;a <lb/>fuerit, a&longs;tringens &longs;olùm &longs;apor apparet in <lb/>fine. </s>

<s id="s.006762">Herba e&longs;t exili caule, minuto folio: <lb/>optima punicea, purpureáve ac &longs;plen<lb/>dens. </s>

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<s id="s.006774">Rur&longs;us quia &longs;uper&longs;tare aquis ab&longs;que fo<lb/>liis herba non pote&longs;t, diximus autem ca<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg957"/><lb/>rere illam foliis, ip&longs;a planta foliorum <lb/>con&longs;itorum in&longs;tar erit. </s>

<s id="s.006775">Carere verò foliis, <lb/>indicio e&longs;t herbas, quæ aquis ina&longs;cun<lb/>tur: quoniam iunci fronde carent, quam<lb/>vis non aquæ: &longs;ed aquarum alueis tum ri<lb/>pis ina&longs;cantur: ob fluctus enim nece&longs;&longs;e ef<lb/>&longs;et, vt frondes, foliave, &longs;i qua e&longs;&longs;ent ex<lb/>ciderent. <pb pagenum="499" xlink:href="016/01/148.jpg"/><arrow.to.target n="marg958"/></s>

<s id="s.006775">Carere verò foliis, <lb/>indicio e&longs;t herbas, quæ aquis ina&longs;cun<lb/>tur: quoniam iunci fronde carent, quam<lb/>vis non aquæ: &longs;ed aquarum alueis tum ri<lb/>pis ina&longs;cantur: ob fluctus enim nece&longs;&longs;e e&longs;<lb/>&longs;et, vt frondes, foliave, &longs;i qua e&longs;&longs;ent ex<lb/>ciderent. <pb pagenum="499" xlink:href="016/01/148.jpg"/><arrow.to.target n="marg958"/></s>

<s id="s.006776"><margin.target id="marg957"/>Iuncus cur <lb/>flexilis, & <lb/>fronde ca<lb/>rens.</s>

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<s id="s.006842">Igitur non &longs;peciem mutant planta<lb/>rum principia, &longs;ed potiùs magnitudinem, <lb/>formam, viré&longs;que augent, aut minuunt. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.006843">Sunt autem duo plantarum principia, locus <lb/>& &longs;olum: atque ob id alia aliis locis, vel <lb/>&longs;olo proueniunt, velut apud Ambro&longs;&longs;en&longs;es <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg971"/><lb/>in Phocide coccus na&longs;cebatur olim, quo <lb/>etiam nunc no&longs;tra purpura tingitur. </s>

<s id="s.006844">Frutex <lb/>e&longs;t, vt Pau&longs;anias veridicus vir refert, rham<lb/>ni magnitudine, iunco &longs;imilis, &longs;ed mollio<lb/>ribus, ac nigrioribus foliis: fructus qualis <lb/>&longs;olano, magnitudine erui: cùm præmatu<lb/>rus e&longs;t, na&longs;citur ex eo animal culici &longs;imile, <lb/>&longs;ed minus, quòd euolat: ob hoc igitur col<lb/>ligi &longs;olet antequàm erumpat. </s>

<s id="s.006845">Simile ratio<lb/>ne in campis Galliæ abundat berberis, ma<lb/>ximè Lugdunen&longs;i Prouincia: & in monti<lb/>bus buxus: nam Gallia, vt dici &longs;olet, ma<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg972"/><lb/>ximè pars illa, &longs;axo&longs;a e&longs;t & vento&longs;a & ri<lb/>xo&longs;a. </s>

<s id="s.006845">Simile ratio<lb/>ne in campis Galliæ abundat herberis, ma<lb/>ximè Lugdunen&longs;i Prouincia: & in monti<lb/>bus buxus: nam Gallia, vt dici &longs;olet, ma<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg972"/><lb/>ximè pars illa, &longs;axo&longs;a e&longs;t & vento&longs;a & ri<lb/>xo&longs;a. </s>

<s id="s.006846">Buxus igitur &longs;olo lapido&longs;o, c&oelig;lo pau<lb/>lò frigidiore, venti&longs;que gaudet. </s>

<s id="s.006847">Pina&longs;ter <lb/>autem frigidioribus in vallibus, montibú&longs;<lb/>que na&longs;ci &longs;olet. </s>

<s id="s.006848">Sic frumentum contraria <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg973"/><lb/>ratione in in&longs;ula B. Thomæ, quæ &longs;ub æqui<lb/>noctij circulo po&longs;ita e&longs;t, ob &longs;oli & c&oelig;li <lb/>temperiem in herbam tran&longs;it fru&longs;tratis agri<lb/>colis. </s>

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<s id="s.006935"><margin.target id="marg986"/>In&longs;erendi <lb/>ratio.</s>

<s id="s.006936">Dicunt tamen, vitem in&longs;itarn cera&longs;o vuas <lb/>præcoces ferre: quod neque &longs;emper, nec <pb pagenum="502" xlink:href="016/01/151.jpg"/>vbique contingit. </s>

<s id="s.006936">Dicunt tamen, vitem in&longs;itam cera&longs;o vuas <lb/>præcoces ferre: quod neque &longs;emper, nec <pb pagenum="502" xlink:href="016/01/151.jpg"/>vbique contingit. </s>

<s id="s.006937">Sed e&longs;t modus in his præ<lb/>&longs;tantior: Triennis aut paulò antiquioris ce<lb/>ra&longs;i truncum terebra transfodito: per id <lb/>faramen bimæ vitis, quæ iuxta nata &longs;it, ra<lb/>mum traducito, locum diligenter com<lb/>plens fimo, vnde cera & &longs;tupa claudens, <lb/>&longs;ic vt qui prominet &longs;urculus ab vtraque <lb/>planta trahat alimentum: inde po&longs;t bien<lb/>nium in calidæ regione, in frigida po&longs;t <lb/>triennium: præcinde ramum à vite iuxta ce<lb/>ra&longs;um, vt vitis à &longs;ola cera&longs;o trahat alimen<lb/>tum: vtque vitis hæc præcoces feret vuas, <lb/>&longs;ic eodem modo in&longs;ita, mala, ro&longs;a, flores, &longs;ub <lb/>bruma. </s>

<s id="s.006937">Sed e&longs;t modus in his præ<lb/>&longs;tantior: Triennis aut paulò antiquioris ce<lb/>ra&longs;i truncum terebra transfodito: per id <lb/>foramen bimæ vitis, quæ iuxta nata &longs;it, ra<lb/>mum traducito, locum diligenter com<lb/>plens fimo, vnde cera & &longs;tupa claudens, <lb/>&longs;ic vt qui prominet &longs;urculus ab vtraque <lb/>planta trahat alimentum: inde po&longs;t bien<lb/>nium in calidæ regione, in frigida po&longs;t <lb/>triennium: præcinde ramum à vite iuxta ce<lb/>ra&longs;um, vt vitis à &longs;ola cera&longs;o trahat alimen<lb/>tum: vtque vitis hæc præcoces feret vuas, <lb/>&longs;ic eodem modo in&longs;ita, mala, ro&longs;a, flores, &longs;ub <lb/>bruma. </s>

<s id="s.006938">Eiu&longs;dem rationis e&longs;t, quum &longs;emen li<lb/>ni cepis inditum profert herbam lini fo<lb/>lio, &longs;apore verò acri. </s>

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<s id="s.006940">Atque ea ratione <lb/>excogitatam puto &longs;calongiam, quæ tuni<lb/>cis ac forma allium refert, odore autem & <lb/>&longs;apore tum &longs;ub&longs;tantia cepam: vt inter hæc <lb/>duo media, ad vnguem videatur: medium <lb/>enim pror&longs;us e&longs;t inter omnia, &longs;eu natura, <lb/>&longs;eu arte. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg988"/></s>

<s id="s.006941"><margin.target id="marg987"/>Sealongia, <lb/>&longs;eu macro<lb/>cronion.</s>

<s id="s.006941"><margin.target id="marg987"/>Scalongia, <lb/>&longs;eu macro<lb/>cronion.</s>

<s id="s.006942"><margin.target id="marg988"/>Conuer&longs;io fo<lb/>liorum in <lb/>plantis an<lb/>nua diurna<lb/>que.</s>

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<s id="s.006965"><arrow.to.target n="marg992"/><lb/>ri pha&longs;elli forma deficit: magnitudine ve<lb/>rò atque &longs;ub&longs;tantia tam corticis, quàm nu<lb/>clei amygdalis per&longs;imilis e&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.006966">Cortex qua<lb/>cunque tæda melius ardet: olei enim plu<lb/>rimùm continet, atque id adeò acre, vt li<lb/>guam feriat magis quàm piper: & ob id <lb/>creditum: mirum in modum prode&longs;&longs;e vul<lb/>neribus. </s>

<s id="s.006967">Nucleus, pi&longs;tacij &longs;aporem refert. </s>

<s id="s.006968">Ob <lb/>id &longs;i ex herba na&longs;ceretur, non leuis lucri pro<lb/>uincia e&longs;&longs;et illum transferre: nam impen&longs;am, <lb/>oleum corticibus exceptum ad lampadum <lb/>v&longs;um, &longs;uperaret: toto medulla v&longs;uræ loco <lb/>e&longs;&longs;er. </s>

<s id="s.006969"><margin.target id="marg992"/>Pha&longs;ellus <lb/>Indicus.</s>

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<s id="s.007014">Plutarchus verò cen&longs;et, quoniam ignea <lb/>vi polleat, irnitari pondere, atque &longs;iccatum <lb/>reparatis viribus contrahi: vel quia aëre ex<lb/>cu&longs;&longs;o robu&longs;tius fiat, & magis flectatur in <lb/>aduer&longs;um. </s>

<s id="s.007015">Atque vt ex multis vna fiat &longs;en<lb/>tentia, lignum hoc quum pondere vexatur, <lb/>di&longs;cutit, &longs;eu humidum, &longs;eu aqueum, &longs;eu <lb/>aërem: vunde brenius factum, retrahit &longs;e<lb/>ip&longs;um. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1000"/></s>

<s id="s.007015">Atque vt ex multis vna fiat &longs;en<lb/>tentia, lignum hoc quum pondere vexatur, <lb/>di&longs;cutit, &longs;eu humidum, &longs;eu aqueum, &longs;eu <lb/>aërem: v unde breuius factum, retrahit &longs;e<lb/>ip&longs;um. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1000"/></s>

<s id="s.007016"><margin.target id="marg1000"/>Sicomori li<lb/>gnum quod <lb/>in aqua &longs;ic<lb/>catur, & non <lb/>in aëre.</s>

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<s id="s.007021">Minore admiratione dignum e&longs;t, quòd </s>

<s id="s.007022"><arrow.to.target n="marg1001"/><lb/>&longs;tatuæ &longs;udent: nam ratio in promptu e&longs;t, <lb/>quum humidum pingue, vi caloris ex<lb/>pre&longs;&longs;um, fudoris imaginem præ&longs;ter. </s>

<s id="s.007023">Ob id <lb/>maximè &longs;udant, quæ ligno con&longs;tant cedri, <lb/>oliuæ, vitis ac cupre&longs;&longs;i. </s>

<s id="s.007024">Contingit hoc ma<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1002"/><lb/>gis Au&longs;tris flantibus, quòd humor &longs;it co<lb/>pio&longs;ior, ac tenuior. </s>

<s id="s.007025">At quæ in terra &longs;ulphu<lb/>rea, ac bitumino&longs;a na&longs;cuntur, &longs;i aërea ac <lb/>ignea &longs;ub&longs;tantia &longs;int, parúmque terræ, ac <lb/>aquæ contineant, quales &longs;unt alnus, abies, <lb/>pinus, piceáque dum franguntur, maximè <lb/>&longs;i iam putruerint &longs;cintillas igneas emitte<lb/>re &longs;olent. </s>

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<s id="s.007046">Quærunt igitur iurè meritò quidam, <lb/>quomodo meconium, cùm immodicè &longs;it <lb/>frigidum, atque adeò vt occidat, po&longs;&longs;it <pb pagenum="504" xlink:href="016/01/153.jpg"/>Venerem excitare? </s>

<s id="s.007047">Itaque alind meco<lb/>nium ab amphiam e&longs;&longs;e exi&longs;timant. </s>

<s id="s.007047">Itaque aliud meco<lb/>nium ab amphiam e&longs;&longs;e exi&longs;timant. </s>

<s id="s.007048">Sed & <lb/>amphiam venenum e&longs;t apud Indos, atque <lb/>ex eorum genere, quæ ab&longs;que mole&longs;tia oc<lb/>cidunt: quod meconio proprium e&longs;&longs;e, ne<lb/>mo ignorat. </s>

<s id="s.007049">Sed for&longs;an aliud e&longs;t quippiam <lb/>quod & curas leuat, & Venerem &longs;ti<lb/>mulat, & &longs;omnum affert, quale amo<lb/>mum & crocus. </s>

<s id="s.007050">Ergo quòd &longs;int quædam, <lb/>quæ Venerem immodicam excitent, do<lb/>cuimus: quænam autem &longs;int illa, per<lb/>fecta plantarum hi&longs;toria etiam explica<lb/>bimus. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1006"/></s>

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<s id="s.007068">In hoc videtur natura plantis inclemen<lb/>tior fui&longs;&longs;e quàm animalibus, cùm plantis <lb/>hyeme ve&longs;tes decidant, animalibus cre&longs;cant, <lb/>&longs;cilicet pili. </s>

<s id="s.007069">Armauit & plantas velut & <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1008"/><lb/>animalia, duritie, magnitudine, flectendi <lb/>facilitate, tum &longs;pinis. </s>

<s id="s.007070">Muniuit enim qua<lb/>drifariàm foliia, &longs;pinis ( vt dixi <emph type="italics"/>)<emph.end type="italics"/> ro&longs;arum, <lb/>minoribus aculeis. </s>

<s id="s.007070">Muniuit enim qua<lb/>drifariàm follia, &longs;pinis ( vt dixi <emph type="italics"/>)<emph.end type="italics"/> ro&longs;arum, <lb/>minoribus aculeis. </s>

<s id="s.007071">vt boraginis: lanugine, <lb/>vt menta&longs;tri: pilis, vt violæ, & pilo&longs;ellæ <lb/>vtriu&longs;que. </s>

<s id="s.007072">Lanugine den&longs;ior pilus, ideò ad <lb/>vulnera con&longs;olidanda nil par. </s>

<s id="s.007073">Sed & errores, <lb/>vt in animalibus, atque eò ftequentiores, <lb/>quò viliores. </s>

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<s id="s.007097">Indicio primum e&longs;t, quòd nul<lb/>la planta, quæ nudum habeat truncum, pa<lb/>ria habeat in vertice: deinde, quòd medium <lb/>folium &longs;emper &longs;it maius, pinguius ac ro<lb/>bu&longs;tius reliquis, tum illi proximiora remo<lb/>tioribus, quodque ex aduer&longs;o nerui &longs;emper <lb/>cauitas in &longs;tipite adiacet, ip&longs;eque truncus <lb/>faciliùs inflectitur in ip&longs;am cauitatem, quàm <lb/>in neruum. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1013"/></s>

<s id="s.007098"><margin.target id="marg1012"/>Folia pro<lb/>pter flores & <lb/>fructus &longs;acta <lb/>e&longs;&longs;e o&longs;tendi<lb/>tur.</s>

<s id="s.007098"><margin.target id="marg1012"/>Folia pro<lb/>pter flores & <lb/>fructus facta <lb/>e&longs;&longs;e o&longs;tendi<lb/>tur.</s>

<s id="s.007099"><margin.target id="marg1013"/>Nerui folio<lb/>rum cur <lb/>impares.</s>

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<s id="s.007120">Cato verò & hos, & <lb/>vuas nondum maturas va&longs;is vitreis &longs;ub terra <lb/>reconditis &longs;eruari docuit. </s>

<s id="s.007121"><margin.target id="marg1016"/>Fructus du<lb/>ri corticis <lb/>quomodo ro<lb/>uire&longs;cant.</s>

<s id="s.007121"><margin.target id="marg1016"/>Fructus du<lb/>ri corticis <lb/>quomodo re<lb/>uire&longs;cant.</s>

<s id="s.007122">Multa &longs;unt quæ ad hæc pertinent, non <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1017"/><lb/>tamen &longs;unt ex his de quibus, vt &longs;ermo &longs;it <lb/>completus, nunc dicendum erit. </s>

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<s id="s.007178">Ab&longs;olui&longs;&longs;e iam plantarum hi&longs;toriam &longs;cio </s>

<s id="s.007179"><arrow.to.target n="marg1024"/><lb/>&longs;ed quoniam attamenti rubri atque puni<lb/>nei compo&longs;itionem docui, cæterorum etiam <lb/>adiiciam. </s>

<s id="s.007179"><arrow.to.target n="marg1024"/><lb/>&longs;ed quoniam attamenti rubri atque puni<lb/>nci compo&longs;itionem docui, cæterorum etiam <lb/>adiiciam. </s>

<s id="s.007180">C&oelig;ruleum, à c&oelig;rulea terra, vel <lb/>lapide Cyaneo, tum aureum è purpurina, <lb/>vel auro: reliquique omnes è metallicis co<lb/>lores, vtriu&longs;que ad vnguem modis, quibus <lb/>rubrum è cinnabari &longs;uprà mi&longs;ceri docuimus, <lb/>perficiuntur. </s>

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<s id="s.007196">Siquidem, &longs;i pulue<lb/>re delendæ &longs;unt, affricandus e&longs;t digitis mol<lb/>liter. </s>

<s id="s.007197">Si ferro, celerrimè, & leui&longs;&longs;imè tra<lb/>ctandus gladius. </s>

<s id="s.007198">Si aqua, caue, ne dum <lb/>literas &longs;tudes abradere, chartam laceres. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007199">Et ad &longs;ummum, ne tam accuratum nego<lb/>gium ruditer tractes. </s>

<s id="s.007199">Et ad &longs;ummum, ne tam accuratum nego<lb/>tium ruditer tractes. </s>

<s id="s.007200">Dictum hucu&longs;que de Elementis, C&oelig;lo, <lb/>Luce, Mi&longs;tione, Metallis, Lapidibus, & <lb/>Plantis: tran&longs;eamus iam ad Animalium hi<lb/>&longs;toriam, & primò ad in&longs;ecta. </s>

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<s id="s.007219">Animalia fui&longs;&longs;e <lb/>&longs;ola, quæ aliorum carnibus ve&longs;cerentur, po&longs;<lb/>&longs;ibile non fuit: nam altero alterum <expan abbr="comed&etilde;-te">comeden<lb/>te</expan>, nec alio cibo &longs;uppetente, cum &longs;emper ali<lb/>quid loco excrementi &longs;uperabundet, quanti<lb/>tate primùm moles tota animalium & nu<lb/>mero minueret, demum etiam imò breui de<lb/>ficeret. </s>

<s id="s.007220">Quòd &longs;i plantis omnia animalia ve&longs;<lb/>cerentur, non adepta fui&longs;&longs;et natura perfe<lb/>ctionem quoniam &longs;anguisille, & caro non <lb/>ex elementis confractis, & optimè tempera<lb/>tis con&longs;i&longs;teret. </s>

<s id="s.007221">Ob id nullum animal, quod <lb/>carne non ve&longs;catur, &longs;agax e&longs;t, & prudens, ex<lb/>cepto elephante. </s>

<s id="s.007222">Non ergo aues &longs;agaces, <lb/>non pi&longs;ces, non animalia pedibus &longs;olis præ<lb/>dita, &longs;olicita, &longs;agacia & moribus humanio<lb/>ribus facere potetat. </s>

<s id="s.007222">Non ergo aues &longs;agaces, <lb/>non pi&longs;ces, non animalia pedibus &longs;olis præ<lb/>dita, &longs;olicita, &longs;agacia & moribus humanio<lb/>ribus facere poterat. </s>

<s id="s.007223">Nam quæ carnibus <lb/>vtuntur, &longs;en&longs;u proximioria homini &longs;unt <lb/>quàm quæ plantis, vt canes, vulpes, cercopi<lb/>theci, feles, leones, delphini, vr&longs;i, aquilæ. </s>

<s id="s.007224">Tria <lb/>igitur animalium genera &longs;unt ciborum va<lb/>rietate di&longs;tincta: quædam enim &longs;olis plantis <lb/>ve&longs;cuntur, vt equi, a&longs;ini, boues, oues, capræ. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007225">Quædam &longs;olis animalibus, vt leones, delphi<lb/>ni, pantheræ. </s>

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<s id="s.007227">Quæ <lb/>animalibus ve&longs;cuntur, &longs;i animalia excipias, <lb/>quæ illis loco cibi &longs;unt, cum reliquis ciuilia <lb/>&longs;unt, velut coruo cum vulpe, pifici cum mil<lb/>uis, vulpi cum &longs;erpente, crocodilo cum regu<lb/>lo, aut lupo pi&longs;ci cum mugili. </s>

<s id="s.007228">Sed quæ plan<lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1031"/><lb/>tis ve&longs;cebantur, dentibu&longs;que obtu&longs;ioribus <lb/>indigebant: alia vngulis armauit, vt equos, <lb/>a&longs;inos, & camelos, alia cornibus, vt <lb/>boues, & capras. </s>

<s id="s.007229">Et quoniam paruis <lb/>animalibus vngularum, & cornuum præ<lb/>&longs;idium fugam retarda&longs;&longs;et, & ob virium <lb/>imbecillitatem parum attuli&longs;&longs;et auxilij, ob <lb/>id vtrumque illis negauit, vt leporibus, cu-<pb pagenum="508" xlink:href="016/01/157.jpg"/>niculi&longs;que Fera autem omnia, & quæ car<lb/>ve&longs;cuntur, dentibus, & præacutis armauit, <lb/>præter aues: in his verò ro&longs;trum fecit adun<lb/>cum. </s>

<s id="s.007230">Sed vniuer&longs;is fermè quibus aut den<lb/>tes non dedit, vt auibus: aut minùs firmos, <lb/>vt felibus, ac his, quæ &longs;imilia illis &longs;unt, vn<lb/>gubs curuos & robu&longs;tos largita e&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.007231">Carni<lb/>nora igitur dentibus, & vnguibus mitia cor<lb/>nibus, aut vngulis, &longs;i magna erant parua <lb/>celeritate &longs;ola muniuit. </s>

<s id="s.007231">Carni<lb/>uora igitur dentibus, & vnguibus mitia cor<lb/>nibus, aut vngulis, &longs;i magna erant parua <lb/>celeritate &longs;ola muniuit. </s>

<s id="s.007232">Reliquum e&longs;t igitur <lb/>his intellectis, vt doceamus, cur quædam <lb/>animalia è putredine generentur, alia per <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1032"/><lb/>propagationem. </s>

<s id="s.007233">Cau&longs;a igitur huius diffe<lb/>rentiæ e&longs;t, quia natura generationem pau<lb/>ci&longs;&longs;imis indigere voluit: ob id principaliter <lb/>generationem ex putrida materia in omni<lb/>bus animalibus quæ&longs;i&longs;&longs;et: &longs;ed quoniam per<lb/>fecta, vt ab&longs;oluerentur, longo tempore in<lb/>digebant, non potui&longs;&longs;et materia tamdiu <lb/>ab&longs;que motu con&longs;eruari, maximè ob tem<lb/>porum vici&longs;&longs;itudines ab&longs;que conceptaculo: <lb/>itaque nece&longs;&longs;arius fuit vterus, vel oui cor<lb/>tex, in quo &longs;eruaretur f&oelig;tus, donec perfi<lb/>ceretur: atque ideò etiam generatio ex &longs;e<lb/>mine. </s>

<s id="s.007234">Itaque manife&longs;tum e&longs;t, &longs;olam gene<lb/>rationem ex putredine intentam e&longs;&longs;e à na<lb/>tura, eamque exiguo tempore ab&longs;olui: reli<lb/>quam coactam e&longs;&longs;e, nec primò à natura in<lb/>tentam, atque tardiorem. </s>

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<s id="s.007390">Sed &longs;alamandræ neque mon&longs;tra &longs;unt, neque <lb/>&longs;ui motus habent plus quàm vnum princi<lb/>pium: verùm cùm diuiduntur, imaginatri<lb/>cem virtutem habent imperfecti&longs;&longs;imam. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007391">Quid mirum cùm dum valent, &longs;int hebetis <lb/>&longs;en&longs;us? </s>

<s id="s.007392">exterioris dico: quid de interiore di<lb/>cendum e&longs;t? </s>

<s id="s.007393">Cau&longs;a igitur huius ince&longs;&longs;us e&longs;t, <lb/>quòd cùm imaginatricem habeant debili&longs;<lb/>&longs;imam, hæcautem virtus dolorem, & malum <lb/>effugere docet, vtraque pars autem dolo<lb/>lorem &longs;entit, vbi præci&longs;um e&longs;t corpus, & al<lb/>tera ab altera diui&longs;a, anterior igitur ver&longs;us <lb/>po&longs;teriorem vulnus habet, po&longs;terior ver&longs;us <lb/>partem anteriorem: quare vt dolorem vtra<lb/>que pars effugiat, anterior anterius moue<lb/>bit, po&longs;terior po&longs;terius: ob ídque &longs;peciem re<lb/>fert animalis duo principia motus habentis. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007393">Cau&longs;a igitur huius ince&longs;&longs;us e&longs;t, <lb/>quòd cùm imaginatricem habeant debili&longs;<lb/>&longs;imam, hæcautem virtus dolorem, & malum <lb/>effugere docet, vtraque pars autem dolo<lb/>rem &longs;entit, vbi præci&longs;um e&longs;t corpus, & al<lb/>tera ab altera diui&longs;a, anterior igitur ver&longs;us <lb/>po&longs;teriorem vulnus habet, po&longs;terior ver&longs;us <lb/>partem anteriorem: quare vt dolorem vtra<lb/>que pars effugiat, anterior anterius moue<lb/>bit, po&longs;terior po&longs;terius: ob ídque &longs;peciem re<lb/>fert animalis duo principia motus habentis. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007394">Nullum igitur animal ni&longs;i mon&longs;trificum, & <lb/>natura imperfectum, duo pote&longs;t habere ca<lb/>pita, tum quia quod paucioribus ab&longs;olui po<lb/>te&longs;t, natura plurimis haud perficit: tum quia <lb/>id animal &longs;ibiip&longs;i po&longs;&longs;et di&longs;&longs;entire, & aduer<lb/>&longs;ari. </s>

<s id="s.007395">Atque hæ &longs;unt rationes per&longs;ua&longs;oriæ, de<lb/>mon&longs;tratiuæ autem in libris de Arcanis æter<lb/>nitatis adducentur. </s>

<s id="s.007396">At dices: Cancri tamen <lb/>ad vtranque partem mouentur: &longs;ed pedes <lb/>habent antè re&longs;picientes, ob id non mouen<lb/>tur in vtranque partem ex principio. </s>

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<s id="s.007438">Nam cùm &longs;taret gallo &longs;imilis videri po<lb/>tuit, ni&longs;i quòd corio, non plumis, tectus e&longs;<lb/>&longs;et, carerétque alis. <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1057"/></s>

<s id="s.007439"><margin.target id="marg1057"/>Animalia è <lb/>putrida ma<lb/>teria &longs;ermè <lb/>tot generum, <lb/>quot ea, quæ <lb/>putre&longs;cunt.</s>

<s id="s.007439"><margin.target id="marg1057"/>Animalia è <lb/>putrida ma<lb/>teria fermè <lb/>tot generum, <lb/>quot ea, quæ <lb/>putre&longs;cunt.</s>

<s id="s.007440">Sed his relictis, ad apum genus reuerta<lb/>mur. </s>

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<s id="s.007474">Et Plinius: Seres lanico &longs;yluarum nobiles <lb/>perfu&longs;am aqua depectentes frondium cani<lb/>tiem. </s>

<s id="s.007475">Exi&longs;timo tamen, hoc no&longs;trum &longs;ericum <lb/>illud e&longs;&longs;e, quod ab antiquis celebratur, Ari<lb/>&longs;toteli <emph type="italics"/>(<emph.end type="italics"/>vt dixi) cognitum, &longs;ed in certa nu<lb/>triendi ratione, intermortuo di&longs;ciplina, &longs;eu <lb/>quòd Pamphyla docuerit, delata ex India <lb/>fila, & iam victoria Alexandri Magni co<lb/>gnita, non tamen tran&longs;latis vermibus, texe<lb/>re. </s>

<s id="s.007476">Inde primùm &longs;ub Iu&longs;tiniano, & oua, & <lb/>artem educandi per monachos ad nos per<lb/>ueni&longs;&longs;e. </s>

<s id="s.007477">Interim verò dum latuêre, per&longs;ua<lb/>&longs;um e&longs;t antiquis è frondium lanugine depe<lb/>cti: &longs;iue quod hoc verimilius videretur, &longs;eu <lb/>quòd bombyces ibi &longs;pontè in &longs;yluis proue<lb/>niant, &longs;eu quòd &longs;ic incolæ occultare origi<lb/>nem &longs;erici melius po&longs;&longs;e &longs;perarent. </s>

<s id="s.007477">Interim verò dum latuêre, per&longs;ua<lb/>&longs;um e&longs;t antiquis è frondium lanugine depe<lb/>cti: &longs;iue quod hoc veri&longs;imilius videretur, &longs;eu <lb/>quòd bombyces ibi &longs;pontè in &longs;yluis proue<lb/>niant, &longs;eu quòd &longs;ic incolæ occultare origi<lb/>nem &longs;erici melius po&longs;&longs;e &longs;perarent. </s>

<s id="s.007478">Verùm vt <lb/>Cæ&longs;aris huius ac materni aui aut beneficio <lb/>totus orbis innotuit, patuit apertè præter <lb/>hoc &longs;erici genus nullum aliud e&longs;&longs;e. </s>

<s id="s.007479">Vtili&longs;&longs;imi </s>

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<s id="s.007522">Verùm cur hæc <emph type="italics"/>(<emph.end type="italics"/> etiam&longs;i quædam mino<lb/>ra &longs;int apibus) formicæ &longs;cilicet, papiliones, <lb/>locu&longs;tæ oua gignunt, apes non po&longs;&longs;unt? </s>

<s id="s.007523">Cau<lb/>&longs;a e&longs;t, quòd cùm pariunt, non volant, &longs;ed for<lb/>mam retinent erucæ, aureliæve, aut cum <lb/>his commoriuntur, vt bombyces ac locuftæ: <lb/>nam oua in tam paruis animalibus volatui <lb/>impedimento erant: igitur cùm apes præ<lb/>&longs;taret ob egregiam vtilitatem viuaces e&longs;&longs;e, <lb/>in &longs;eptimum enim aut etiam octauum an<lb/>num earum vita producitur, oua parere im<lb/>po&longs;&longs;ibile fuit. </s>

<s id="s.007523">Cau<lb/>&longs;a e&longs;t, quòd cùm pariunt, non volant, &longs;ed for<lb/>mam retinent erucæ, aureliæve, aut cum <lb/>his commoriuntur, vt bombyces ac locu&longs;tæ: <lb/>nam oua in tam paruis animalibus volatui <lb/>impedimento erant: igitur cùm apes præ<lb/>&longs;taret ob egregiam vtilitatem viuaces e&longs;&longs;e, <lb/>in &longs;eptimum enim aut etiam octauum an<lb/>num earum vita producitur, oua parere im<lb/>po&longs;&longs;ibile fuit. </s>

<s id="s.007524">Nec&longs;olùm tam minuta, &longs;ed <lb/>& maiora animalia è putredine, imò omnia <lb/>credendum e&longs;t originem ducere, cùm iam <lb/>de muribus con&longs;tet, & pr&longs;ces in aquis re<lb/>centibus &longs;pontè generentur. </s>

<s id="s.007525">Cum enim (vt <lb/>dixi) putredo præce&longs;&longs;erit, pingue &longs;eparatur à <lb/>cinere, calórque confe&longs;tim animam infun<lb/>dit illi materiæ aptam. </s>

<s id="s.007526">Vnde fit vt animalia <lb/>omnia, quæ è putri generantur materia, vt <lb/>blattæ, vermes, <foreign lang="greek">o)/noi</foreign> dolores vbique natos &longs;i <lb/>quid aliud finiant: &longs;unt enim è calidi&longs;&longs;ima, </s>

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<s id="s.007585">Videtur autem formicarum genus natura <lb/>non neglexi&longs;&longs;e, tunc ob hanc mutationem, <lb/>tum ob vitæ longitudinem, tum ob tot illa<lb/>rum diuer&longs;a genera, & politiam etiam, quam <lb/>&longs;eruant. </s>

<s id="s.007586">Vt verò apes regnum, ita formi<lb/>cæ popularem &longs;tatum cu&longs;todiunt. </s>

<s id="s.007587">Cre&longs;cunt <lb/>quædam admodum in calidis regionibus, <lb/>adeò vt Ra&longs;is referat, in Su&longs;ide inclyta <lb/>vrbe Per&longs;idis regionis, fui&longs;&longs;e nutritam for<lb/>micam publicè, &longs;iquidem in foro Auiano, <lb/>quæ &longs;ingulis diebus libram carnis ederet. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007588">Aliæ verò in I&longs;thmo Sur & Nort occiden<lb/>talis Indiæ ca&longs;ulas adeò duras efficiunt <lb/>apum &longs;imilitudine, vt vix &longs;ecuribus tandem <lb/>rumpi queant, atque &longs;ie arboribus perni<lb/>ciem afferunt. </s>

<s id="s.007589">Inter plantarum genera, quæ alis carent, <lb/><arrow.to.target n="marg1073"/><lb/>frumentaceæ præ&longs;tant, quæ &longs;i inter furfures <lb/>nutriantur, mirum dictu in quantam excre&longs;<lb/>cant multitudinem: vt ex decem in trecen<lb/>tas, paucorum dierum interuallo. </s>

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<s id="s.007646"><margin.target id="marg1079"/>Formicæ cæ<lb/>cæ.</s>

<s id="s.007647"><margin.target id="marg1080"/>Panni ne ti<lb/>nei, <expan abbr="in&longs;e&longs;tãtur">in&longs;e&longs;tan<lb/>tur</expan>. </s>

<s id="s.007647"><margin.target id="marg1080"/>Panni ne ti<lb/>nei, <expan abbr="in&longs;e&longs;tãtur">in&longs;f&longs;tan<lb/>tur</expan>. </s>

<s id="s.007648"><margin.target id="marg1081"/>Serpentes <lb/>quibus fu<lb/>gentur.</s>

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<s id="s.007658"><margin.target id="marg1083"/>Cur quibu&longs;<lb/>dam anima<lb/>libus præci&longs;a <lb/>membra re<lb/>generentur.</s>

<s id="s.007659">Proprium videtur e&longs;&longs;e animalibus è putre<lb/>dine genitis, quòd in&longs;ecta &longs;int, vt pr&etail;ci&longs;a <expan abbr="m&etilde;-bra">men<lb/>bra</expan> illis rena&longs;cantur: vt caudæ &longs;erpentum & <lb/>lacertorum, chelæ cancrorum, oculi hirundi<lb/>num certè, & vt multi exi&longs;timant, etiam &longs;er<lb/>pentum. </s>

<s id="s.007659">Proprium videtur e&longs;&longs;e animalibus è putre<lb/>dine genitis, quòd in&longs;ecta &longs;int, vt pr&etail;ci&longs;a <expan abbr="m&etilde;-bra">menm<lb/>bra</expan> illis rena&longs;cantur: vt caudæ &longs;erpentum & <lb/>lacertorum, chelæ cancrorum, oculi hirundi<lb/>num certè, & vt multi exi&longs;timant, etiam &longs;er<lb/>pentum. </s>

<s id="s.007660">Cau&longs;a huius e&longs;t, quòd imperfecta <lb/>&longs;unt: vnde non hirundinibus, &longs;ed pullis hi<lb/>rundinum oculi rena&longs;cuntur, & in f&oelig;tibus <lb/>etiam per&longs;æpè, dum in vtero &longs;unt membra <lb/>oblæ&longs;a re&longs;taurantur. </s>

<s id="s.007661">Medici ob id quòd hu<lb/>midiora &longs;unt, dicerent. </s>

<s id="s.007662">For&longs;an vtraque can&longs;a <lb/>vera dici pote&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.007662">For&longs;an vtraque cau&longs;a <lb/>vera dici pote&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.007663">In genere igitur in&longs;ecto<lb/>rum erunt te&longs;tudines, & crocodili, & cha<lb/>mæleontes, & quæcunque quadrupeda <pb pagenum="517" xlink:href="016/01/166.jpg"/>ex ouis generantur: non enim hæc nece&longs;&longs;i<lb/>tate quadam ex ouis, vt pi&longs;ces, vel volu<lb/>cres (vt inferiùs demon&longs;trabimus) generan<lb/>tur, &longs;ed ob naturæ imperfectionem. </s>

<s id="s.007664">Igitur <lb/>his ex talibus, membra præci&longs;a re&longs;tauran<lb/>tur, ignobilis enim natnra oui, & &longs;eminis <lb/>ve&longs;tigium vix in his di&longs;cernitur. </s>

<s id="s.007664">Igitur <lb/>his ex talibus, membra præci&longs;a re&longs;tauran<lb/>tur, ignobilis enim natura oui, & &longs;eminis <lb/>ve&longs;tigium vix in his di&longs;cernitur. </s>

<s id="s.007665">Porrò hæc </s>

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<s id="s.007669">Solus primùm mouet &longs;uperio<lb/>rem mandibulam, inferiorem verò habet <lb/>immobilem. </s>

<s id="s.007670">Secundum in eo miraculum, <lb/>quòd tandiu cre&longs;cat, quandiu viuat. </s>

<s id="s.007671">Viuit <lb/>autem ad annum &longs;exage&longs;imum, totque den<lb/>tes habet, totidémque diebus ex ouo exclu<lb/>ditur, totque numero oua parit, vt cum hoc <lb/>numero maximè conuenire videatur. </s>

<s id="s.007672">Cre&longs;cit <lb/>autem ex ouo an&longs;erino &longs;imillimo in longitu<lb/>nem cubitorum 18. quandoque. </s>

<s id="s.007672">Cre&longs;cit <lb/>autem ex ouo an&longs;erino &longs;imillimo in longitu<lb/>dinem cubitorum 18. quandoque. </s>

<s id="s.007673">Quintum <lb/>habet præcipuum hoc animal, quòd cùm <lb/>terre&longs;tre &longs;it, vitam agit vt pi&longs;cis: &longs;emper enim <lb/>fermè in aquis latitat, maximè autem in <lb/>Nilo flumine. </s>

<s id="s.007674">Vbi & illud admiratione di<lb/>gnum, quòd &longs;upra Chairum vrbem &longs;æuiat, <lb/>hominé&longs;que occidat, infra autem mitè. </s>

<s id="s.007675">Re<lb/>ferunt à &longs;eptingentis annis, quibus Mahu<lb/>meti cultores eam regionem obtinent, factos <lb/>longè ferociores quàm antea: huiú&longs;que cau<lb/>&longs;am e&longs;&longs;e, quòd in fundamentis templi cu<lb/>iu&longs;dam, hi &longs;tatuam plumbeam crocodili in<lb/>uenerunt cum literis Ægyptiis, qua confla<lb/>ta crocodilos in po&longs;terum de&longs;æui&longs;&longs;e. </s>

<s id="s.007676">Cicu<lb/>rabant autem eos &longs;acerdotes mirum in mo<lb/>dum, cum tamen nullum animal quod in <lb/>aquis degat, verè man&longs;ue&longs;cat, tum minus <lb/>hoc quod crudeli&longs;&longs;imum e&longs;t. </s>

<s id="s.007677">Libet autem ex <lb/>Strabone ip&longs;a verba, de hac re ab Ari&longs;to<lb/>tele etiam ac po&longs;teris confirmata, citare. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007678">Ea &longs;unt: In præfectura Ar&longs;inoë crocodilus <lb/>mirum in modum colitur, & e&longs;t &longs;acer apud <lb/>eos, in lacu quodam nutritus &longs;eor&longs;um, & <lb/>&longs;acerdotibus man&longs;uetus, & Suchus voca<lb/>tur. </s>

<s id="s.007679">Ho&longs;pes itaque vir inter alios honota<lb/>ti&longs;&longs;imus, qui nobis &longs;acra common&longs;trabat, <lb/>ad lacum veniens placentulam & carnem <lb/>a&longs;&longs;am, & quoddam mul&longs;i va&longs;culum ex c&oelig;<lb/>na attulit. </s>

<s id="s.007679">Ho&longs;pes itaque vir inter alios honora<lb/>ti&longs;&longs;imus, qui nobis &longs;acra common&longs;trabat, <lb/>ad lacum veniens placentulam & carnem <lb/>a&longs;&longs;am, & quoddam mul&longs;i va&longs;culum ex c&oelig;<lb/>na attulit. </s>

<s id="s.007680">Belluam in ripa lacus inuenimus: <lb/>ex &longs;acerdotibus alius os eius aperuit, alius <lb/>bellaria iniecit, inde carnes ac mul&longs;um: il<lb/>le in lacum exiliens in vlteriorem partem <lb/>traiecit. </s>

<s id="s.007681">Hæc tam robu&longs;ta tamen ac grandis <lb/>bellua Tentyritas ( Ægyptij & hi &longs;unt ) ti<lb/>met ac formidat. </s>

<s id="s.007682">Strabo enim inquit po&longs;t <lb/>pauca: Cúmque crocodili Romam allati <lb/>e&longs;&longs;ent vt viderentur, Tentyritæ eos &longs;eque<lb/>bantur. </s>

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<s id="s.007713">Sed qui no&longs;tra <lb/>ætate illos viderunt, hæc addunt: Corpus <lb/>eius viride fermè e&longs;t cum &longs;plendore quo<lb/>dam, maculis ex albo cæruleóque di&longs;tinctis. <lb/></s>

<s id="s.007714">Sub ventre tamen dilutior e&longs;t color viridis, <lb/>& maculæ ip&longs;æ vbicunque &longs;unt, clauorum <lb/>formam qua&longs;i referunt, cùm rotundæ pau<lb/>li&longs;per prominere videantur. </s>

<s id="s.007715">A&longs;pectus eius <lb/>admodum alacris e&longs;t, ac lætus, quòd oculi <lb/>illius virides, & ex candido luteóque mi&longs;ti <lb/>multam lucem contineant, ideóque hilarior <lb/>videtur. </s>

<s id="s.007716">Sed cùm &longs;uprà viridem colorem, <lb/>aut album, vel cæruleum ponitur, colos <lb/>&longs;imilis iam natinus viget, & magis efflo<lb/>re&longs;cit, reliquis duobus non mutatis. </s>

<s id="s.007716">Sed cùm &longs;uprà viridem colorem, <lb/>aut album, vel cæruleum ponitur, colos <lb/>&longs;imilis iam natiuus viget, & magis efflo<lb/>re&longs;cit, reliquis duobus non mutatis. </s>

<s id="s.007717">Sed <lb/>qui&longs;que &longs;uis in partibus &longs;eruatur. </s>

<s id="s.007718">At cùm <lb/>&longs;uper nigrum ponitur colorem, pars viridis <lb/>mirum in modum ob&longs;curatur & hebe&longs;cit, <lb/>maculæque mutantur. </s>

<s id="s.007719">Idem etiam ei ab&longs;<lb/>que coloribus contingit: vexatus enim aut <lb/>detentus vi, maculas in nigrum commutat, <lb/>& viridis color ob&longs;curatur. </s>

<s id="s.007720">Idem lætus & <lb/>alacris &longs;pontè colores natiuos ingeminat & <lb/>accendit: adeò vt non ob&longs;curum &longs;it hanc co<lb/>lorum mutationem illi contingere ob animi <lb/>a&longs;fectus. </s>

<s id="s.007721">Conuer&longs;us ad &longs;olem, illius radios <lb/>hianti ore excipit, & aërem deuorat. </s>

<s id="s.007722">Nam <lb/>&longs;en&longs;im primò turget collum, inde partes re<lb/>liquæ, donec aëre ad ventris imum de&longs;cen<lb/>dente pars etiam illa intumeat. </s>

<s id="s.007723">Na&longs;citur in <lb/>Soquotra in&longs;ula orientalis Indiæ. </s>

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