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Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco · 1517

Phylotxy roll opinion m-I will enter?...
Redeemed ... in r... 19. m: 2?
they were of more fruitful [...] where Babylon held
And those whom the recent Babylon, having swallowed them, gathers more cumulatively; but not even grace, having been victorious once, had rendered you, O Persia, so swollen on the plain of Marathon,
Plato 3 on l[...]?
re[...] in ...?
... ?
... m... r...?
Rhodes, a noble island...
deceived the most clever city
Not deceived by Rhodes, not supported by the back of Plato,
Demosthenes... oration...
finally with Eloquence removed
Not snatched away by the volume of Demosthenic tongue,
Cicero 1 on ...?
heroion ...?
I hand over the Stagira philosopher who [is from Arist...]
Nor carried along by the Stagirite motion referring to Aristotle of the thundering one,
To the royal
To the throne, the trifles of so great a fame that is perishing,
Livy Book 21?
Years: 60?
popular
Either by study or by the empty applause that you once demanded,
Tarentum, a city of Calabria ... Book 27?
falsely then [with] unwarlike things
Which now, lying about unwarlike trophies of praise,
pride [all] #
Show off with arrogance, by which the ignorant crowd swells.
Philoxenus throat ...
luxuries
Add softness and the luxuries that the old fame of Tarentum
fears [Gluttony Book 8 m. 51 ...]
Dreads, which Apicius does not know; he hates
Pliny: Book 18: r...: 16: am:
... Sardanapalus...
Philoxenus, remarkable for his throat ...
And the Philoxenian throat, which he rejects,
Sybaris ... Book 1 ...
Sardanapalus [Assyrian ... tracts ... silk threads ...]
He who, unworthy of the scepter, handled silk threads,
Sybaris [ ... sparing ...]
And Sybaris, despising the modest dishes of the table.
... Achaemenis ...
Persian kings ...
But why are the monstrous lusts (alas, it shames me to recount), once qualities of the Achaemenid kings,
Filthy luxury ...
Condemned by a profane name, all those who did not admit them,
... Syria from Lebanon ...
inflow
However many Rome has collected the sewers of vices.
rome
When it had already admitted the Assyrian Orontes into the Tiber,
rushing by itself
Soon it was to fall by its own wealth, and by its own arms.
... Moors ...
prior: into the Tiber
long since
Long since they receive it, the Moor and African insult it,
mocks, laughs ...
Egypt mocks, Libya sneers, Thrace laughs,
through a foul sewer it rushes ...
Nor do they listen to the warnings of the faith; we are conquered, they say.
Polluted: ...
A collection of crimes, a foul cloud of vices,
treacherous cloud [ ... to Cyprus ...]
Migrated hither long ago, a perfidious crowd.