quaedam nota torpidi ac defidfs illius orii , qiiod 

 plerumque obfervatur, cum inter populos ex- 

 qiiificisfime excukos ^ at diviciis et luxuria cor- 

 riiptos, turn inter Barbaras et incukas nationes> 

 ubi nuHae habentur artes, nulla industria, Utri- 

 que enirn alea afFectus fopitos excitare, ac mo- 

 lestisfimam illam excutere conantur mentis tor- 

 pedineni , quae nihil agendo homini oboritur.; 



Quid de niaioribus nostris testatus fuerit Ta- 

 citus, omnibus in or^ est, eos nimirum tanta, 

 temeritate aleam exercuisfe, ut, cum omnia 

 defecisfent, extreme iaccu de libercate conten- 

 derenc ^i). 



Similia, aut maiora etfam , de Hunais fue« 

 re tradita (^2). Barbarfs Americanis omnibus 

 communem esfe immodicum aleae amorem , ob» 

 fervac R o b e r t fo n u s (3). 



Idem 



(i) IVTor. Germ, Cap. 24. 



( 2j Conf. A m b r o f i i , locus a Barbeyrac io 

 aureus, Traiie du Jeu , III. 5, § 17. not. 2. 



(3) Vid. Robertfon, History, of America 9 

 Book IK Oper Tom. IX. p. 213, Edit. Lond. 1817.) 

 Quem locum, quoniam miridce ad rem nostram facie , 

 totum hie labet adfcribere. „ /In immoderate love of 

 >» P^^'S 9 especially at games of hazard , wh'ck feeii^t 

 „ to be natural io all people unaccustomed to the oc- 

 yy cupatisns of regular industry , is likewife uniyerfal 



„ among 



