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# Title: Monumenta Paderbornensia (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 83)
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AD LECTORENT.
moriam, ad excitandos legentium animos, ad locibu
jusceleberrimi Fundatissimique ploriam Faciune. Nihril
inter mortalia opera immortale, non inlcripta nocis
marmmora, non incilam etallo liona, non grandibus la
Xis ltructa moles.
Tempus edaa rerum, tuque invidiosa vet ustas,
Omnia destruitis, vitiataque dentibus avi
Paulatim lent a consumitio omnia morte.
Optixe Prramides, ubiMausoleum Ca
rix Regis, ubimaenificentissumuiblua Salomonistem.
plum Dudum haec quoque admirancta dirini operis
fabricae memoria hominum abiisset, nisi lacrarum li-
cerarum monumentanobislerrallent. Ostende mitri
Romanorum obelilcos, arcustriumphales, amphichea
tra, acreora illa Calarum palacia. Prajani Forum Phco- Sison. lib.
doricus ltalix R exnunquam line novomiraculo latis occid.
aspici posse tasus est: C apitolia conscendere haud aliird
elle, quam omnia lrumana ingenia superalle. LiE guora
nunc pars eorum operum luperelt, qua cam ambitiolo
luxuaulaqe Struxitk omana magniticentia. Omnia pro-
Peretustate aut Crothica barbarie in rudera consede-
runt. Feramen haec omnia immortalicali consecrata
erane, quae ne centum quidem Facibus modo perlceu
Lancum vicx ex spiritlis recinene, quantum
Feris.
18. de imp.
seriptores roluerune. Nimirum exempla omnia arcbia
Ciceropro
e monumenta pleraque, jacerent in tenebris, nist eoca
literarum lumen accederet. Praeclare Agathias historicus
. 1. Quem lesi velim, hac superre philo(ophacus: Ouic-
quitd
Obid. in
Meta.
morph. bitn