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SYLVA.

Erum, & sententiarum, quasi Y“λn dicta à multiplici materiâ, & varietate, in iis contenta. Quemadmodùm enim vulgò solemus infinitam arborum nascentium indiscriminatim multitudinem Sylvam dicere: Ità etiam libros suos in quibus varia, & diverse materia opuscula temerè congesta erant, Sylvas appellabant Antiqui : Tymber-trees.

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