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 (1) Verbera cum dantur, (2) tubulo cum lumina desunt,

(3) Aut cum fœmineis œdibus usque manes.

(4) Aut in Divorum templis, (5) ægerve, (6) dedisti

Frustra operam tubulo, heus! inapertus abit.

(7) Cum patiens tristi cruciatur lingua dolore,

(8) Proctoribus titulum dicis et æque domum.

Hæc si perlexisse juvit, collecta magistris

Omnia fumantis prædicamenta tenes."

Of these eight predicaments the doctrine was first taught in the University of Padua by certain learned Greeks who had fled thither from Constantinople. And they continued to hold their place without assault, till at the end of the last century they were impugned by the German Windiemann, who proposed to substitute the following:—Verberability, mulierity, ecclesiasticity, glossarity, and inillumination as being fewer in number, and possessing greater perspicuity. And Zimmerblast, in his "Kritik der Windiemannschen Pfeiffe-Philosophie," Tüb., 1815, would further reduce the predicaments to two only—inillumination and impertur-