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ce^Lint, lit fan.guine frigido & fspe brsncliiis, /'W-' 

 wuJbui LVirsen ab illis funt dift^n^ta., VERlME.S au- 

 di funt, unico & fepe nullo ofTe internb. - IN,SE» 

 CTA et;am ofTibiis intemis tleftiruta, fed cataphra- 

 £ln , difting^uiitar poris feu fpracull's rlateraiiBiis & 

 Jn^emiii fibi p4"opriis. ' In his omnibus mira orrini- 

 no' o^durrrit gualitas, (}u3e naturae ciuidforLirn mul- 

 tum . cxcej'Caif ingcnia, u.qxt,^q Metamorphafir^ cpx. 



non minus ^ qaam ifta-Ovidiana, eft parado^a. Plc- 

 risquc hafc colnpetil' iifedtis, prJEter Aptcraj raro 

 in Vcrmibus vifa ^ft, fed aliquandp tamcn m 'Cy- 

 jtrcis, inqae- Am'phibiorum Lscfcrtis, Oflracionibus, 



Diodontidibus, aliisqiie hon mulris, pafllm confpl^ 

 citur.' Per Met^TViorphofin ejusmodi unum idem- 

 qac animal. Larvis diverlimodts' in-Theatrum hoc 

 ptodire obtc'rvanius. Quis nifi ex'pertus L 





ftaf' trunci terctem, gravematque edacem, pedi- 

 bus rexdtjlts f &■ aculeis per omnia afmatum* in 

 Papilionem levcm, quatuor volantem alls, colori- 

 bus faperbienrem, & ad-mclla tantum exfugcnda 

 aptum commutari polTe crederet ? Qinis Epheme- 

 ram fragilem ^.n acre volitantcm, a larva draconi* 

 formi & gulofa transformatnm diceret? Quis Myr* 

 melconcm Aranea; haud abiimijem, mandibulis vo' 

 racillimis cornua cervina reFereiitibus, in tenerum 



c:"TimutaH nquropterOn uiHrmarcc? Quis Ranam 



Cauda aHquando fuifTe inlbuQiam latfernna crede 



ret, hani:que Laceitani' pifcitbrraem fuilTe, Cotto 



uani ill* lanjlforem. Has metamorphofes in gra- 



biis naturae obfervandis adcuratc foqui decet, 

 atquc in catena antrorfum procedere , non retror- 

 fufn ut ?kr]afia St Seba, qui transmutatione 'retro- 

 erada Rnnam paradoxam in Pifcem abire putab^nt- 

 Aniraalia ccrte ejnsmodi per larvam minus agnofcJ 

 pofPjnt, quam in Theatris fcenicis homines larvatr; 

 at dolcndum eil curiofos iiandum nUam invenifle 



thcoriam, qua fpcciss perrt;£la, qiidm larva dabu 



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