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# Title: Leibnitii Protogaea. Concept und Collectanea dazu, nebst einer von Leibniz corrigierten Reinschrift. (shelfmarks Ms XXIII, 23a; MS XXIII, 23a)
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Quicquid cogniti orbis cultum
acceperat exceptis indis et persis Romana
potentia continebatur; quae ubi succubuit
Germanorum armis, excito sedibus septen-
trione, regiones et populi nomina et dominos
mutavere. Consumta demum vi procellae
ab agitatione resedit orbis, et nova velut
a dicurio rerum facies apparuit. Tunc jacta
sunt fundamenta imperiorum, quae nunc quoque
Europam distinguunt, Historiaeque Pragmaticae
periodus initium capit
Germaniae partem habitatoribus desertam
Slavi occuparant sarmatarum progenies
reliquam ma indigenae tenuere, franci
itemes
Atemanni, saxones, Bajuarii, et Turingi
validae gentes, quarum nomine et potentia pleraeque
Sebrri
Sed ipsis inter seFrancorum res superior fuit
quod primi rationem et disciplinam viribus
miscuissent. Eoque instrumento divina providentia
usa est, ut barbari ad mores compositos et supremi
Numinis reverentiam traducerentur.
Tractum Germaniae ad Oceani aestuaria
vergentem prisci saxones, cognatique illis populi
sedem habuere, servarunt posteri et coloniis armisue
dilatarunt, per Morinos, et Britanniam ipsam,
et denique longissimam sinus Balthici oram.
abrutiso
excisisi ibi psis stavis, et reliqua
diversid generis barbarie subacta itaque
regio omnis, quae ad mare inclinat, olim
attributa Ingaevonibus, communem originem
habitatorum fatetur, quos a caeteris Germaniae
incolis victu cultuque fortasse nonnihil sed
maxime dialecto distinguas. Nam Atticum
quiddam sonant isti et in nervos contractum
quin et acutiore enuntiatione sibilus illis
in Tau duratur, aspiratio in mutam;
dum superioribus populis sermo zonia
liquiditate laxatur, alicubi et in Doricum
genus crassescit
Vetus ante Francorum imperium
Divisio saxoniae celebratur in orientalem
et occidentalem nostri Ostphaliamm Westphaliamue
dixere. Acio quidem Angariam an utrimbus
velat medam distingui, seds plemangus