The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 07 (of 11) — Thomas Hobbes — John Shaqi
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 07 (of 11)
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_tædium vini adducunt_. Did he, or any else, with the
interposition of an &c. make Trochaics? I say, and Stephanus says so,
too, that it is in Pliny, lib. xiii. cap. 15, near the end; the whole
sentence runs thus: _Ebriosis Ova noctuæ per triduum data in vino,
tædium ejus adducunt_. I doubt not but these are the places he aimed at,
although he disguised and minced the quotations; if they be not, I
should be glad to augment my Stephanus with his additions.
These things premised, I come to consider the Doctor’s proofs: _Res eo
adducta est_: _adducta vita in extremum_: _adducta res in fastidium_:
_rem ad mucrones et manus adducere_: _contractares et adducta in
augustum_: _res ad concordiam adduci potest_: _in ordinem adducerem_:
_adducere febres, sitim, tedium vini_ (all in Robert Stephen) betwixt
which and _adducere malleum_, what a vast difference there is, I leave
them to umpire _qui terretes et religiosas nacti sunt aures_, who are
the competent judges of elegancy, and only cast in the verdict of one or
two, who are in any place (where the purity of the Latin tongue
flourisheth) of great esteem. Losæus, in his _Scopæ Linguæ Latinæ, ad
purgandam Linguam a barbarie_, &c. (would any think that the Doctor’s
elegant expression, frequent in all authors, which none but the
malicious or ignorant can deny, should suffer so contumelious an
expurgation?) Losæus, I say, hath these words: _Adferre plerique minus
attenti utuntur pro adducere. Quod Plautus, in Pseudolo, insigni exemplo
notat_.
_CA._--Attuli hunc.
_PS._--Quid attulisti?
_CA._--Adduxi volui dicere.
_PS._--Quis istic est?
_CA._--Charinus.