Amor per cui tant' alto il ver discerno, Ch' apre le porte di diamante nere, Per gl' occhi entra il mio nume, et per vedere Nasce, vive, si nutre, ha regno eterno, Fa scorger--quant' ha 'l ciel, terr' et inferno. ] [Footnote 498: Lag. 628. 18.] [Footnote 499: Lag. 639.] [Footnote 500: Lag. 672. 29.] [Footnote 501: 646. 2 ff.] [Footnote 502: Lag. 646, 647.] [Footnote 503: 647. 34 ff.; cf. the Sonnet (Tansillo's) on p. 648:-- Poi che spiegat' ho' l' ali al bel desio, Quanto piu sott' il pie l' aria mi scorgo, Piu le veloci penne al vento porgo, Et spreggio il mondo, et vers' il ciel m' invio. * * * * * Fendi sicur le nubi, et muor contento; S' il ciel si illustre morte ne destina. ] [Footnote 504: _Alle selve i mastini e i' veltri slaccia Il grovan Atteon_, etc., p. 651.] [Footnote 505: Lag. 651, 652.] [Footnote 506: 653. 6.] [Footnote 507: Lag. 654, 655.] [Footnote 508: 658. 16.] [Footnote 509: 731. 9 ff.] [Footnote 510: _E.g._ darkness is _privatively_ infinite, although it has a limit in light, a positive something.] [Footnote 511: _E.g._ light is _positively_ infinite; its limit--darkness--is privation.] [Footnote 512: Lag. 731.] [Footnote 513: Lag. 662, 663.] [Footnote 514: 701. 30 ff.] [Footnote 515: Lag. 732. 23; the terms correspond to [Greek: dynamis] and [Greek: energeia], or [Greek: hylê] and [Greek: eidos], respectively.] [Footnote 516: 647. 7.] [Footnote 517: Lag. 744. 1 ff.] [Footnote 518: 696. 24; cf. 681. 22.] [Footnote 519: 705. 35.] [Footnote 520: 716. 14.] [Footnote 521: Lag. 663. 36; cf. 666. 5.] [Footnote 522: P. 680. 2 ff.] [Footnote 523: Cf. also _Sigillus Sigillorum_ (ii. 2. 192), where Polemon and Laurentius are added to the above list. The highest kind of "contraction" or concentration is the subject, viz. that which is proper to philosophers. Cf. also _De Vinculis in genere_ (vol. iii. p. 657). Diogenes the Cynic and Epicurus are placed side by side as having held that they had attained the highest good in this life possible to man, when they could keep the mind free from pain, fear, anger, or other melancholy passions and preserve it in a certain heroic delight. By this contempt of the ignoble things in this life, viz. those subject to change, they protested that they had attained, even in this mortal body, to a life similar to that of the gods.] [Footnote 524: Lag. 700. 35; cf. 681. 19.] [Footnote 525: P. 700. 14, 701. 4 ff.; cf. also 710. 11. The divine beauty excludes the possibility of our loving in its stead any other object. Also 713. 30.] [Footnote 526: _Op. Lat._, ii. 2. 195.] [Footnote 527: Lag. 704. 10.] [Footnote 528: Lag. 699. 3.] [Footnote 529: P. 742. 24; cf. also 723. 28 and 724. 17.] [Footnote 530: Lag. 741. 14.] [Footnote 531: _Op. Lat._ iii. 158.] [Footnote 532: _Op. Lat._ i. 3. 4 (Letter to Rudolph II., prefixed to the _Art. adv. Math._).] [Footnote 533: Lag. 452. 3 ff.]