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Martin Zeiller in his "Topographia Hassiae" says they were first caught sight of in Hesse in 1414, which is four years earlier than all historians fix the date of their advent into Germany, from following Jacob Thomasius, who makes that statement in the 16th and 17th sections of his "Disputatio de Cingaris."
Nor would Tacitus have erred in using the anomalous expressions pointed out by Nicholas Aagard in his treatise about him, entitled "In C.C. Tacitum Disputatio." VIII. He now and then forgets himself by using words that clearly never could have been known to Tacitus, because they were words that sprang up in an after age.
This disputatio in utramque partem this debate for and against is certainly calculated to drive us into accepting the juste milieu morality of Aristotle; a conclusion that is also supported by the following consideration. Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass; but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
Sed credo deos immortalis sparsisse animos in corpora humana, ut essent qui terras tuerentur quique caelestium ordinem contemplantes imitarentur eum vitae modo atque constantia. Nec me solum ratio ac disputatio impulit ut ita crederem, sed nobilitas etiam summorum philosophorum et auctoritas.
Sacra imperatoris Justini ad Hormisdam. Mansi, viii. 456. Photius, i. 149, who refers to the Deacon Rusticus, Disputatio contra Acephalos. Mansi, viii. 60. Il granto manto, Dante. Quia in sede Apostolia inviolabilis semper Catholica custoditur religio. Hergenröther, K.G., i. 333. See Photius, i. 149.
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