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ſemper ſiûtregali nobilitate prefulgidi.Gal
liſtolidi; LevesGræci; avari Syrii, Afri fub-
“ doliz acuti Siculi; luxurioſi ſemper Afiani,&
occupati voluptatibus;Hiſpaniclatá jactan“
tix animoſitate præpoſteri 8c, Prætercàſo-
Ict ctiam quibuſdam in locis varietatem m0-
, rum cauſlari nimiaabundantia variarum ré-
 ¡rumibinaſcentium, quibus incolæ plas ja-
fo &abſgzcupiditatum freno,& ſinculla ra-
“ tioncutehtes, in profundum cadunt præcl-
pitiumgrayium crrorum, &in peccatorum
pelagus immenſum; unde extremum iplis
\ Creatur exitiumatqgzinteritus. Nam fi Eze-
Campani chieli credimus, Zuiguitas Sodoma fuit abut!
as dantia, Hincabſq; dubio nata fuit Campa-
norum ruina, & econtra Hannibalis atque
Carthaginenfium Magnificentià. Reâté i-
“ gitur Valcrius Corvinus ut à Livio fbr. 7, ab
- Drbe condita refertur, Campanos haud dubits
_ nimioluxu aſſluentibis rebus, molliticg,ſuapotitd
__ quam viboſtinm vitloseſſe. Idemqz &Tyrrbe-
= nis eandem ob cauſam obrigille Diodorus
n Siculus{b. 6. Bibliothec, cap. y. innuithis ver-
bis : Priori virtute abjecia, porui ſe atg, ignavia
tradentes, baud injuria partam à ſuis majoribus
gloriam in bellis miſere, Inde Virgilius 1. Ge
orgie. Arabes appellat molles, E38
“ Indiamittit ebar, molles ſuathura Sabai,
Et Claudianus Virgiliumimitatus dixit

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