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Momenta desultoria

Constantijn Huygens

Epitaphium L. Realii, Ind. Expraefecti Philosophiae Magneticae peritissimi.

QVod nec sponte, nec ad noti monumenta sepulchri Affluis, à saeclo ferreus, hospes, habes. talis inexhaustum magnetica turba Realem Cinxit, & à vivi pendula voce stetit. Quin proprio ductu charis comes ossibus haerens Ferrea, si liceat, lamina claudat humum. Magnus enim Magnes jacet hìc; qui pyxide multâ, Quos voluit lapidem discere, se docuit; Se lapidem, se Magnetem, se saeculi amorem, Qui, quia sapiens, noverat & lapidem. Qui, quia se, lapis, & lapidem, sine pyxide Gangem Creditur & Boreae victor adisse domum.

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