Vitruvius, Marci Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem : ope codicis Guelferbytani, editionis principis, ceterorumque subsidiorum recensuit, et glossario in quo vocabula artis propria Germ. Ital. Gall. et Angl. explicantur, 1800
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            gias operas praeſtiterunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2925" xml:space="preserve">Namque ſingulis ſrontibus ſinguli artiſices:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2926" xml:space="preserve">ſumpſerunt certatim partes ad ornandum et probandum, Leochares, Brya-
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            xes, Scopas, Praxiteles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2927" xml:space="preserve">nonnulli etiam putant Timotheum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2928" xml:space="preserve">quorum a@tis
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            eminens excellentia coegit ad ſeptem ſpectaculorum ejus operis pervenire
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            ſamam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2929" xml:space="preserve">Praeterea minus nobiles multi praecepta ſymmetriarum con-
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            ſcripſerunt, ut Nexaris, Theocydes, Demophilos, Pollis, Leonidas, Silanion. </s>
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            Melampus, Sarnacus, Euphranor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2931" xml:space="preserve">Non minus de machinationibus, uti
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            Cliades, Archytas, Archimedes, Cteſibios, Nymphodorus, Philo Byzantius,
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            Diphilos, Democles, Charitas, Polyidos, Phyros, Ageſiſtratos. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2932" xml:space="preserve">Quorum
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            ex commentariis quae utilia eſſe his rebus animadverti, collecta in unum
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            coegi corpus, et ideo maxime, quod animadverti in ea re ab Graecis vo-
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            lumina plura edita, ab noſtris oppido quam pauca. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2933" xml:space="preserve">Fuſſitius enim mi-
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            rum de his rebus primus inſtituit edere volumen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2934" xml:space="preserve">Item Terentius Varro
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            de novem diſciplinis, unum de architectura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2935" xml:space="preserve">Publius Septimius duo-
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            Amplius vero in id genus ſcripturae adhuc nemo incubuiſſe videtur, cum
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            ſuiſſent et antiqui cives magni architecti, qui potuiſſent non minus ele-
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            ganter ſcripta comparare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2936" xml:space="preserve">Namque Athenis Antiſtates, et Callaeſchros,
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            et Antimachides, et Porinos, architecti, Piſiſtrato aedem Jovi Olympio ſa-
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            cienti ſundamenta conſtituerunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2937" xml:space="preserve">Poſt mortem autem ejus propter inter-
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            pellationem reipub. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2938" xml:space="preserve">incepta reliquerunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2939" xml:space="preserve">Itaque circiter annis quadrin-
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            gentis poſt Antiochus rex cum in id opus impenſam eſſet pollicitus, cellae magnitudinem, et columnarum circa dipteron collocationem, epi-
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            ſtyliorum et ceterorum ornamentorum ad ſymmetriarum diſtributionem,
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            magna ſolertia ſcientiaque ſumma civis Romanus Coſſutius nobiliter eſt
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            architectatus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2940" xml:space="preserve">Id autem opus non modo vulgo, ſed etiam in paucis a
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            magniſicentia nominatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2941" xml:space="preserve">Nam quatuor locis ſunt aedium ſacrarum mar-
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            moreis operibus ornatae diſpoſitiones, e quibus proprie de his nomina-
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              <note symbol="5)" position="foot" xlink:label="note-0179-01" xlink:href="note-0179-01a" xml:space="preserve">Sic cum Meurſio. Al. ducentis.</note>
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