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Innodat culicem, sed vespae pervia tela est Sic rumpit leges vis, quibus haeret inops.

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ENVMERAT Aristoteles lib. IX. de hist. Animal. cap. XXXIX. tria aranearum genera, ex quib. tertium dicit esse sapientiss. & de illarum ve- natione & artificio in tela conficienda pluri- ma lectu digna proponit. Quem secutus Plutarch. in com- ment. de solertia Animal. non minus hoc argumentum ele- ganter tractat, nec non AElianus lib. I. cap. XXI. & Plinius lib. XI. cap. XXII, itemque Cicero II. lib. de natura deorum. Anacharsis autem, ut in vita Solonis Plutarchus refert, aranearum telis leges comparabat. Nam ut in his animalcu- la & insecta infirmiora, quales sunt muscae, papiliones, & si- milia, retinentur, validiora autem, ut vespae, & crabrones perrumpunt: it legibus humiles & pauperes constringun- tur, divites vero & potentes illis non alligantur. Quod quidem de legum inaequalitate potius, quam recta ipsa- rum observatione intellegendum.

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