Cataneo, Girolamo, Hier. Cataneus de arte bellica, sive, de designandis ac construendis arcibus & propugnaculis, necnon & de iis oppugnandis, expugnandis ac propugnandis : de itinere exercitus, ac castrametatione, quando expediat manus cum hoste conserere, 1600

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            prædas, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s102" xml:space="preserve">alia id genus quæ quotidie occurrunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s103" xml:space="preserve">Videndum
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            tamen erit, ne magnitudo locitanta ſit, vt Principem opprimat
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            ſumptus, tum in milites, tum in commeatum neceſſarium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s104" xml:space="preserve">Non
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            debet etiam tam exiguus eligi locus, vt tandem, ſed ſeriùs quàm
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            par eſſet, agnoſcatur, paucißimi, vel potiùs nullius vſus eſſe.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s105" xml:space="preserve">Debet igitur ea electio fieri, maturè priùs perpenſis, tum facul-
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            tatibus ipſius Principis, tum etiam commoditatibus ac neceßi-
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            tate ipſius munitionis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s106" xml:space="preserve">Verùm, in tali electione, debemus præ-
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            cipuè ejicere animum ab ys omnibus, in quibus ſitus commodus,
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            vel alia opportunitas deficit, quamvis ſint amplæ ciuitates,
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            vel magna castella. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s107" xml:space="preserve">Sæpe enim vidimus magnos ſumptus im-
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            penſos eſſe in munitiones ſimilium locorum abſque vllo fructu. </s>
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            Quòd ſi mihi fides habeatur, multo ſatius eſſet, vel omnino no-
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            uas munitiones facere, velnouos aggeres exſtruere in loco op-
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            portuno, ad conſeruanda loca illa incommoda, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s109" xml:space="preserve">periculi non
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            expertia, quæ, etiam ſi bene ſita eſſent, nihilominus, propter
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            ipſorum vastitatem, ſeſe tueri non poſſent, niſi cum immenſo
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            ſumptu. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s110" xml:space="preserve">Iterum igitur dico, maturè hæc perpendi debere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s111" xml:space="preserve">Hoc
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            autem, multorum judicio, non fuit à Senenſibus obſeruatum,
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            anno 1554, in munitione portus Herculani: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s112" xml:space="preserve">dum enim ex hac
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            re fructum hunc cupiunt percipere, vt portus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s113" xml:space="preserve">ſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s114" xml:space="preserve">Senenſes
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            ipſos tueri poſſet, tandem innotuit, pleroſque aggeres incaſſum
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            factos fuiſſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s115" xml:space="preserve">id́ hanc ob rem, quòd quum malè hæc munitio
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            fuiſſet deſignata, accidit vt breui, vno aggere amiſſo, reliqui o-
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            mnes, ſine mora, etiam in potestatem hostium venerint. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s116" xml:space="preserve">Quem
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            caſum etiam ſubyt Bononia ad mare anno 1544, quum eſſent
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            circa eam quædam propugnacula erecta à rege Anglo, non ſo-
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            lùm malè ſita, ſed etiam infirma, quæ à Franciſco primo, Gal-
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            liarum rege, intra viginti dies expugnata fuerunt, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s117" xml:space="preserve">, ſine vllo
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            ferè labore, ſolo æquata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s118" xml:space="preserve">Negligere etiam non debet Princeps,
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            ad firmiorem ſuæ ditionis tuitionem, crebram recognitionem </s>
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