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The following simile, taken from Cicero's translation of Aratus, and Voltaire's version of it, are greatly admired: Sic Jovis altisoni subito pennata satelles, Arboris è trunco, serpentis saucia morsu; Ipsa feris subigit transfigens unguibus anguem Semianimum, et variâ graviter cervice micantem; Quem se intorquentem laniens rostroque craentans, Abjicit efflantem, et laceratum effundit in undas, Seque obitu a solis nitidos convertit ad ortus.
The stanzas of Michele Ferno of Milan conclude: Borgia stirps: bos: atque Ceres transcendit Olympo, Cantabunt nomen sæcula cuncta suum; which turned out to be a true prophecy. See Michæl Fernus Historia nova Alexandri VI ab Innocentii obitu VIII; an equally rare publication of the same Eucharius Silber, A. 1493. Ex arce Spoletina, die v. Oct. Vr. vti fr. Cesar de Borja Elect. Valentin.
Gravi enim Sed nondum affecta senectute, Novis contemplationibus Majorem gloriam affectans Inexplebilem sapientiæ animam Immaturo nobis obitu Exhalavit Anno Domini MCXLII. Ætatis suæ LXXVIII. At his death, in 1703, Viviani purchased his property, with the charge of erecting a monument over Galileo's remains and his own.
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