Excerpt from Caii Plinii Secundi Historiae Naturalis Libri XXXVII, Vol. 3

Publicas mundi, invenerìt? Nimirum alii fubiere ritus circaque alia mentes hominum detinentur 8: avaritia: tantum artes coluntur. Antea inclufis gentium imperiis intra ipfas ideoque 8c ingeniis quadam fierilitate fortuna, necefie erat animi bona exercere regefque innumeri honore artium cole bantur, 8c in ofientatione has przeferebant opum, immortalitatem fibi per illas prorogati arbitrantes. Quare abundabant 81 praemia 8c operae Vita. Po ¿eris laxitas mundi 8c rerum amplitudo damno fuit: pofiquam' Senator cenfu legi coeptus, judex fieri cenfu, magif'tratum ducemque nihil magis exor nare quam cenfus: pofiquam coepere orbitas in au¿oritate fumma 8i potentia efi'e, captatio in quas ¿u fertili¿imo, ac {ola gaudia in pohìdendo: pef {um iere Vita: pretia: omnefque a maximo bono liberales di¿ze artes, in contrariam cecidere, ao fervitute fola profici coeptum. Hanc alius alio mo do, 8c in aliìs adorare: eodem tamem habendi que ad fpes, omnium tendente voto. Pafiim Vero etiam egregiì aliena Vitia, quam bona fila, colere malle. Ergo hercules voluptas Vivere coepit, vita ipfa defiit. Sed nos obliterata quoque fcrutabimur nec deterrebit quarundam rerum humilitas, fitut nec in animalibus fecit. Quanquam Videmùs Vir gilium praecellenti¿ìmum vatem, ea de caufa hor torum dotes fttgifîe: 8c e tantis, qua retulit ¿o res modo rerum decerpfifie, beatum felicemque gratia, XV omnino generibus uvarum nominatis, tribus olea totidem pirorum malo vero tantumi Afi'yrio, ceteris omnibus negleétis.

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