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# Title: Merici Casauboni, Is. F. De Quatuor Linguis Commentationis, Pars prior: Quæ, De Lingua Hebraica: Et, De Lingua Saxonica (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 188)
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Delingua anelica vetere,
recurramus, qud anté dixi. nempe haec
omnia ex primar a illa linena in varus
dialectis atque idiomatibus, quae inde a
pud Babylonem nata sunt, perpetuo in po
sterum mansisse. Quamquam non ne-
Caverim etiam postmodo quaedam voca-
bula a nationibus in nationes transisse.
nempeea, quorum res ipsas ante non ha-
buerunt exempli eratia; quis non credat
verbum Cchreiben, sive Cchrivennos ha-
buisse a Romanorum seribere: quando
rem ipsam ab eadem eente primum ac
cepimus. Sic exoticarum arium, fera
rum piscium plantarum, aromatum, es
aliarum rerum vocabula, denique ar-
tium es actionum innumerae adpellatio-
nes in nostram invectae fuerunt posterio
ribus temporibus linenam. At earum
rerum, es actionum, quae jam inde à cen-
eis primordio fuerunt in cente, quis te-
mere crediderit, vocabula Germanos non
habnisse, donec ea ab exteris populis ac-
ceperint; aut, quum habuerint, postea
externis permurasse? Nogne enim no-
varum rerum tam avidi fuerunt prisci
illi Germani, quam nunc sumus, inlin-
rais pariter ac moribus. quod cuiviss
Latinos simul Craecosque rerum scripto-
re