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Momenta desultoria

Constantijn Huygens

Ad Fridericum Spanhemium.

FAx veritatis eruditae, vir Dei, Facunde Rhetor, magne Spanhemi, cui De fonte vivo, an sponte viva dixerim, Romana pronum flumen elocutio est, Qui, quod labore moliuntur maximi, Nullo labore fundis antè maximos; Quòd verba duris implicata vinculis, Ambage multâ, compedum ferro gravi Onusta profero tibi, tanto tibi, Tanto tibi (quid addimus?) Demostheni, Causam fatebor, & fatenti proximè Veniam precabor: Unica est; Pudor. Viden'? Quicum loqui non audeam, singultio.

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