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

NEW MEDIAAN ROMAN.

SOCRATES the Athenian, son of Sophroniscus the stonecutter and Phaenarete the midwife, who, because he was of sharp intellect and saw that physics and eloquence were of no use without virtue, left behind those arts which alone were in use at that time, turned himself to Ethics, and vehemently mocked the sophists. Furthermore, when Apollo was asked by someone about Socrates, he answered that he was the wisest: because of this, when many envied him, he was accused by a certain rich man named Anytus, and the poet Melissus, and the orator Lycon, as if he despised the gods and corrupted the youth, and because he spoke too spiritedly at the trial, he was sentenced to death and drank poison in prison: but the people immediately grieved his death so much that they punished his accusers with either death or exile, and dedicated a bronze statue to Socrates himself. Plato and many others were his disciples. 11223344556677889900:
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NEW MEDIAAN CURSIVE.

ARCHYTAS of Tarentum, a most noble Pythagorean, who rescued Plato by letter when he was about to be killed by the tyrant Dionysius: he was admirable in every kind of virtue and knowledge, and the prince of his state.
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The MUSES are the nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, that is to say Memory, who preside over poetry and music, and all good arts, for mousa muse in Greek signifies song in Latin. The names of the Muses are Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Calliope, Urania. Concerning these, see each individually in their proper places. They are said to dwell on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, whence they are called the Heliconides. They also have many other names, which you will find in their proper places.
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