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# Title: B. D. S. Opera Posthuma (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 30; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 30)
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E R A CE A EVS P OLE F L C A
presse electi, in numerum Patriciorum recipiuntur. ACsihi duo
tantummodofuerint, alter altero potior esse conabitur, et impe-
rium Facile, ob nimiam unicujulque potentiam, in duas partes di-
videtur a in treS, aut quatuos, aut quinque, LIEres, aui quatuor, aui
quinque id tenverint: Ccd partes co debilioreserune, quo in plu-
res ipsum imperium delatum fuerit: ex quo sequitur, in imperio
Aristocratico, ut Ctabilesic, ad minimum Patriciorum numerum
determinandum, necestario habendam esse rationem magnitudinis
ipsius imperii.
S. LI. Ponatur itaque pro medioeris imperii magnitudine latis
esse, ut centum optimi riri dentur, in quos summa imperii pote-
Cas delata Cit, ex quibus consequenter jus competat Collegas Patri-
cioselisendi, quando corum aliquis vita excessit. Ili lanc omni
modo conabuntur, ut corumliberi, vel qui iislansuine proximi
Tunt, sibi succedant: unde het, ut lumma imperii potestas sem-
per Penes coserit, quos Fortuna Patriciis liberos, aut conlansui-
reos dedit, ec quia ex centum hominibus, qui fortuna caula ad
honoresalcendune, rixtres reperiuntur, qui arte, et Consilio Pol
lent, vigentque: Fiet crgo, ut imperii potectas non penes centum;
Sed penes duostantummodo, auttres sit, qui animi victure pollent,
quique Facile omnia ad setrahere; e unusquisque more humana
Cupidinis riam ad Monarchiam Cernere poterit: atque adco, si recte
calculum incamus, necesse eA, ut Lumma porestas imperii, cujus
magnicudinis ratio centum optimatum ad minimum exigit, in
quinguies mille ad minimum Parricios deferatur. Flac enim ratione
nunquam deerit, quin cencum reperiantur animi rirture excellen-
tes, politoscilicet, quod ex quinquasinta, quihionores ambiunt,
colgue adipiscuntur, unus semper reperiatur optimis non inferior,
praeter alios, qui optimorum rirtutes amulantur, quique propte
readioni etiam lunt, qui regant.
5. TTI. Solene Freguentius Patricii cires esse uniusurbis, quae
caputtotiusimperii est, ita ut Ciritas, siro Respublica ex cadem
hrabeat rocabulum, ut olim Romana, Hodic Vencta, Genien-
sIS, _c. AtHTollandorum Respublicanomen ex interea Prorincia
hrabet, ex quo oritur, uc trujus imperii subdiri majori liberrate
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