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Mira videre facit rerum , atque audire; vagantes
Hinc anima: vira functorum fxpe per umbras ,
Hinc occurfantes lemures, larvreque per sedem
Infuctos fouitus , per & atria nigra cientes,
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Panefque, & Satyri , & Nympharum mille figurre.
Porro 1eri c , efficiat lux uc plerumque calorem , Sc ,
'Si violentior eft-, ignem , ffanimafque voraces*
Hoc quoque principiis, qure d ix i, confit ab Ifdem .
Lux in corpus agens refra&a ref^xaque crebris
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litibus interius minimas huc dimovet atque
Illuc particulas urgens, celeremque tremorem
Incutit ; exoritur tum mutua particularum
Mutato politu inter fe , vis excita quredam
Majores motus adjungens motibus illis.
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Protinus amo tu calor e x it; fortior hic fi
Ob validas fiat vires, magnofque tremores,
Ufque adeo partes fervifeent corporis omnes,
Candente ignis uti circum velentur amidtu ,
Paulatimque abeant in fumos, atque vapores;
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N im irum fi materies queat illa refolvi,
Inque vaporibus & fumis flamma incita fu rg a t,
Atque novre circum jaculetur lumina lucis .
Hrec lambens alimenta fua in fele omnia vertit ,
E t , donec luperanc in corpore pabula, flagrat:
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Abfumptis nova fuccedunt, nova flamma per auras
Continuo exoriens fumo furgente n itefeit.1
1. P ro g re d itu r ad alios e ffe r iu s
l u c i s , n im iru m c a lo r e m ,
Sc
u b i
m a jo r ejus c o p ia h a b e a tu r fim u l
c o l l c r i a , ig n e m . O b in te r n a s il
las reflexion es lu m in is in c u t it u r
m o tu s etiam m in im is p a rticu lis
c o rp o ru m >qux lo co dimota? m o v e n
tu r a d h u c m agis internis v irib u s m u .
tu is, eiti fu (c e x p o fu im u s , ub i in li
b r o 7. de lucis te n u ita te a g e b a m u s :
e le g a n te r a u te m e x p o n it p lu re s m o
dos , q u ibu s c o r p o r a a lu ce co a -
r ia i g n e f e u n t ,
te
vel in fla m m a n
tu r ,
'te
r e fo l v u n t u r in c in e r e m ,
vel ca lcem , u t l i g n a ,
te
p lures
l a p i d e s , vel c a n d e n t , u t m e t a l
la ,
te
p lu ra d u r io r a c o r p o r a , q u x
Q u i n
vel ig n e im b u u n tu r , vel in ig n e m
c o n v e r tu n tu r : fors eju fm o d i e d e
fo lem ,
te
f i x a s ,
q u x c o r p o r a
pofTent efle fim ilia te llu ri n o f t r x
te
p la n e tis , fed ig n e cc^icepto c a n
d e n t ia . A q u a m ip fa m , addic , p o s -
fc ig n e m co n cip e re , ft p rius e v a
dat fixa ,
te
c o n v e r ta tu r in q u o d
d am terra* ge n u s r q u o d fieri alte
q u a n d o ,
te
N c v v t o n u s
c c n f u u ,
te
alii m u l t i , q u i c re d u n t p o l ‘ c
ipfa v u lg a ria e le m e n ta m u ta r i in-*
rcr fe , m u ta tu r u tiq u e v e h e m e n t i
c o n g e la tio n e a q u a iq d u riffiim u n
v e lu t f i l i c e m , $um liquefariio**
a c u d i t a d f q r r a a w p rio re ip .
