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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            ſed etiam mediocres ſcientias habere diſciplinarum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s664" xml:space="preserve">peto, Caeſar, et a te, et ab his
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            qui mea volumina ſunt lecturi, ut ſi quid parum ad artis grammaticae regulam
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            fuerit explicatum, ignoſcatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s665" xml:space="preserve">Namque non uti ſummus philoſophus, nec rhetor
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            diſertus, nec grammaticus ſummis rationibus artis exercitatus, ſed ut architectus,
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            his literis imbutus, haec niſus ſum ſcribere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s666" xml:space="preserve">De artis vero poteſtate quaeque in-
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            ſunt in ea ratiocinationes, polliceor, (uti ſpero) his voluminibus, non modo aediſi-
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            can@ibus, ſed etiam omnibus ſapientibus, cum maxima auctoritate, me ſine dubio
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            praeſtaturum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s667" xml:space="preserve">Lib I. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s668" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s669" xml:space="preserve">1.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s671" xml:space="preserve">Non enim de architectura ſic ſcribitur, ut hiſtoriae aut poemata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s672" xml:space="preserve">Hiſtoriae
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            per ſe tenent lectores; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s673" xml:space="preserve">habent enim novarum rerum varias expectationes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s674" xml:space="preserve">Poema-
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            tum vero carminum metra et pedes ac verborum elegans diſpoſitio, et ſententiarum
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            inter perſonas et verſuum diſtincta pronunciatio, prolectando ſenſus legentium per-
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            ducit ſine offenſa ad ſummam ſcriptorum terminationem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s675" xml:space="preserve">Id autem in architecturac
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            conſcriptionibus non poteſt ſieri, quod vocabula, ex artis propria neceſſitate con-
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            cepta, inconſueto ſermone objiciunt ſenſibus obſcuritatem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s676" xml:space="preserve">Cum ea ergo per ſe
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            non ſint aperta, nec pateant eorum in conſuetudine nomina, tum etiam praecepto-
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            rum late vagantes ſcripturae ſi non contrahantur, et paucis et perlucidis ſententiis
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            explicentur, ſrequentia multitudineque ſermonis impediente, incertas legentium eſ-
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            ſicient cogitationes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s677" xml:space="preserve">Itaque occultas nominationes commenſusque e membris ope-
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            rum pronuncians ut memoriae tradantur, breviter exponam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s678" xml:space="preserve">Sic enim expeditius
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            ea recipere poterunt mentes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s679" xml:space="preserve">Non minus cum animadvertiſſem diſtentam occupa-
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            tionibus civitatem publicis et privatis negotiis, paucis judicavi ſcribendum, uti an-
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            guſto ſpatio vacuitatis ea legentes breviter percipere poſſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s680" xml:space="preserve">Lib. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s681" xml:space="preserve">V. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s682" xml:space="preserve">Praeſ.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s684" xml:space="preserve">Cum divina mens tua et numen, Imperator Caeſar, imperio potiretur orbis
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            terrarum, invictaque virtute cunctis hoſtibus ſtratis, triumpho victoriaque tua cives
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            gloriarentur, et gentes omnes ſubactae tuum ſpectarent nutum, Populusque Roma-
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            nus et Senatus liberatus timore, ampliſſimis tuis cogitationibus conſiliisque gubernare-
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            tur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s685" xml:space="preserve">non audebam tantis occupationibus de architectura ſcripta, et magnis cogita-
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            tionibus explicata edere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s686" xml:space="preserve">metuens ne non apto tempore interpellans, ſubirem tui
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            animi oſfenſionem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s687" xml:space="preserve">Cum vero attenderem, te non ſolum de vita communi omnium
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            curam publicaeque rei conſtitutione habere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s688" xml:space="preserve">ſed etiam de opportunitate publicorum
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            aediſiciorum, ut civitas per te non ſolum provinciis eſſet aucta, verum etiam ut
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            majeſtas imperii publicorum aediſiciorum egregias haberet auctoritates: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s689" xml:space="preserve">non putavi
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            praetermittendum, quin primo quoque tempore de his rebus ea tibi ederem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s690" xml:space="preserve">Ideo
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            quod primum parenti tuo de eo fueram notus, et ejus virtutis ſtudioſus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s691" xml:space="preserve">cum au-
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            tem concilium coeleſtium in ſedibus immortalitatis eum dedicaviſſet, et imperium
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            parentis in tuam poteſtatem transtuliſſet, idem ſtudium meum in ejus memoria per-
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            manens, in te contulit ſavorem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s692" xml:space="preserve">Itaque cum M. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s693" xml:space="preserve">Aurelio, et P. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s694" xml:space="preserve">Numiſio, et Cn.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s695" xml:space="preserve">Cornelio, ad apparationem baliſtarum et ſcorpionum, reliquorumque </s>
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