Letterproef van de gietery van Hendrik Floris Wetstein, tot Amsterdam.

NEW MEDIAAN ROMAN.

Io, daughter of Inachus, King of the Argives, whom Jupiter loved, and upon the sudden intervention of Juno, changed into a heifer. Juno, however, not lacking suspicion, begged Jupiter to give that heifer to her, which he then handed over to Argus, who had a hundred eyes, to be guarded; but when Mercury, sent by Jupiter, had killed Argus, Juno, in her anger, sent an œstrum gadfly, an animal harmful to oxen, to harass Io. Io, therefore, stung by the gadfly, ran here and there, and coming into Egypt, was restored to her former form, married King Osiris, and, called Isis, was made a goddess after her death. abcdefghilmnopqrstuv. 11223344556677889900ÆAAAIIMMAABBCCDEN

NEW SMALL DESSENDIAAN ROMAN.

ARCHIMEDES the Syracusan, philosopher and greatest geometer, who first created a sphere, was killed through ignorance or anger by a certain Roman soldier, when the consul MARCELLUS had captured Syracuse, and had ordered that he be saved, although he had long impeded the victory; but the fury of war ignored the consul’s edict. 11223344556677889900
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NEW SMALL DESSENDIAAN CURSIVE.

DEMOSTHENES the Athenian, greatest orator, was a stammerer in his youth, but he amended this defect of nature with such great labor and industry that no one could speak better. Finally, when he defended the liberty of his fatherland against King PHILIPPUS, he was condemned to death by him: therefore, while fleeing, when he was apprehended, he took poison. ADEHILMNOPSTU & a æ