VIVUNT IN VENEREM FRONDES; NEMUS OMNE PER ALTUM FELIX ARBOR AMAT; NUTANT AD MUTUA PALMÆ FÆDERA, POPULEO SUSPIRAT POPULUS ICTU, ET PLATANI PLATANIS, ALNOQUE ASSIBILAT ALNUS.

Propè ad vallis medium sub vna rupium, apparet omni tempore visibiliter integrum ac maximum caput daemonis vsque ad humeros tantùm, cuius speciem præ horrore nullus pleno intuitu humanus audet diu oculus sustinere: nam respicientes contrà aspicit truculentèr, agitans oculos minacitèr, tanquam ex palpebris eiecturus (quæ et scintillant) flammas in altum.

Atque interim aues regionis rapaces, et immundæ, vt corui, vultures, et aquilæ, quæ pro consuetudine optimè morem norunt, aduolant magno numero in aere: Tuncque Relligiosi cum sacerdotibus detruncant corpus in frusta velut in macello, proijcientes pecias in altum auibus, ac decantantes certam ad hoc compositam orationem, tanquam si nostri sacerdotes cantarent.

I do not presume to make any parallel, Antistat mihi millibus trecentis, parvus sum, nullus sum, altum nec spiro, nec spero.

Cousin-germans to these men are many of our great philosophers and deists, who, though they be more temperate in this life, give many good moral precepts, honest, upright, and sober in their conversation, yet in effect they are the same (accounting no man a good scholar that is not an atheist), nimis altum sapiunt, too much learning makes them mad.

Non fortuna sibi te gratum tollit in altum; At docet, exemplo, vis sibi quanta, tuo.

Ascendens in unam navem quae erat Simonis... dixit ad Simonem, Duc in altum, et laxate retia vestra in capturam.

Before reaching it, we crossed the river Sab (called by the natives Altum-Su, golden water), by two old Roman bridges.

"Quinetiam hyberno moliris sidere classem, Et mediis properas aquilonibus ire per altum ... Crudelis!

Unde est illud Alciati epigramma, 'Nititur in pondus palma, et consurgit in altum: Quoque magis premitur, hoc magè tollit onus.'

Adversi campo apparent, hastasque reductis Protendunt longe dextris; et spicula vibrant; Quique altum Preneste viri, quique arva Gabinæ Junonis, gelidumque Anienem, et roscida rivis Hernica saxa colunt: ... qui rosea rura Velini, Qui Terticæ horrentes rupes, montemque Severum, Casperiamque colunt, Forulosque et flumen Himellæ: Qui Tiberim Fabarimque bibunt ...

Tot premit ordinibus, tot adhuc compagibus altum Ædificat caput:

Corpus compressissimum, assulaeforme: caput crassius, minus altum, declive.