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# Title: [Utrum De Poetica Recte Iudicare Possit Qui Non Est Poeta] Vtrvm De Poetica Recte Ivdicare Possit Qvi Non Est Poeta ... (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 42, Stück 16; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 42)
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DE OPTIMO
quit, non rosares, s meis oculisrterere. Pte.
nim ad bene de pictura indicandum opus est o.
culis eruditis, re cum Tullioloquar: qualesma.
distri alicuius e artificis oculos RelianuS rezv
na opuora recte appellat. Ita ad diiudicandum de
rebus quibusdam, quae crebro minutae e pue.
riles videntur iis qui in poctica tunt pueri, licet
maximam poemati pratiam concilient, oculi poe.
tici requiruntur. Neque enimgrammatieus, aut
Philolophus latis callet naturam rocalium, aue
indolemcontonancium, aut quancarisnon dicam
loguutioni, verbo aut yllabae, Cedrnilitterae in-
Cc; aut quandorraiectioni verborum, aucelitioni
Et locus; cujusmodi poetices arcana innumera
peacreliquis Virgilianum poemaadmirabilered.
dune, iisque tantum patent, qui ad poericesin.
ceriora admittuntur, neque rirtutibus poeticis
viciorum, aut ritiis poericis vircutum nomina
praepoltere indunt. Id pocissimum caulsae ett,
cur numeros metrieos, in quorum variatempe.
ratura maximum eloquutionis poeticae pondus
inest, leviter admodum cetiserint explanatoresi
quotquot poecicae expertes ad illam commenta.
tionibus illustrandam animum applicuerunt. VI
noctu sub omnium adspectum veniune noctur.
nae caeli Formae, vndique luminibus ornatae, d
Sellarum perlucidarum globi, nec potest nonr.
nusguilque mirari earum numerum e lplendo.
rem; tamen si actrologus scitus caeli liderumque
spectator, qui motus altrorum et curlus caelestem.
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