probes confideravit, tamdiu difeendum nobis efle, quatn- 
diu nefeiamus Sc quatndiu vivamus, Orbi eruditio , cum, 
publica quxdam ingenii fui monumenta typis evulgata 
fummo ftudio bonaque fide fera: pofteritai confecravit, 
Sc quidem An* i6$o , cypis Salisburgenfibus in forma ut 
vocanc duodeeima , Germanice edidit Tra&atum de 
Fraudibus fatanae uc Sc paulo poft eodem idiomace, Damo- 
graphiam, (i ve dc iEgagropilis libellum, nec non Monofti- 
chorum cxcemporaneorum , latinorum Cencurias treS* 
Tandem Juflu Sc Authoricate laudacorum Statu- 
urn Scyriac, Germanica eciam lingua infigne Volumcn dc 
ni or bis contagions, Norimberg# in folio impreflum pu- 
blicavic, Sc Jnuidisfimo ac ViQoriojhfimo Romanorum 
Jari Leopoldo Alagno , fubjc&iffima devotione inferi- 
ptum, confecravit; plura, fi Deus Vitam viresque pro- 
traxiflet, in lucem emififlet erudita fcripta 5 maxime de 
fale illo mirabili Nitro, quod fibi prse aliiis felegerat, ni* 
hilque camen de eo evulgare decreverat , nifi Vulcano 
prius confulto , propriaque Experientia comprobatum* 
lit autem ftudia fuccumbunt ubi arma ftrepunt, Sc Mu~ 
fas fiJent, ubi 
Martiiis ille aeris raud canor increpat & vox 
Auditus, fra&os fonitus imitata tubarum* 
Sic grave ob atrociflimac Bellonias Turcicac irrumpen* 
ds periculum, Leben'waldium nottrum defecuriori loco 
quasrendo monuit, hosque laudabilifllmos ejus conatus 
luiliffimosque labores turbavic , protraxit, annihilavir* 
Quanta autem turn animorum dejeclio, quanta pericu- 
la illic locorum fuerint quis nefeit ? Ita fane noftcr d* 
zq f Junii A* iad ^lluftris Academic Cxfareo Leo- 
poldinas 
