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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head110" xml:space="preserve">M. VITRUVII POLLIONIS
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            <emph style="bf">DE ARCHITECTURA</emph>
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          LIBER DECIMUS.
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          PRAEFATIO.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3975" xml:space="preserve">Nobili Graecorum et ampla civitate, Epheſi, lex vetuſta dicitur a ma-
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            joribus, dura conditione, ſed jure eſſe non iniquo conſtituta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3976" xml:space="preserve">Nam archi-
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            tectus cum publicum opus curandum recipit, pollicetur quanto ſumptu
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            id ſit ſuturum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3977" xml:space="preserve">tradita aeſtimatione magiſtratui bona ejus obligantur, do-
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            nec opus ſit perſectum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3978" xml:space="preserve">Eo autem abſoluto, cum ad dictum impenſa re-
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            ſpondet, decretis et honoribus ornatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3979" xml:space="preserve">Item ſi non amplius quam quar-
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            ta in opere conſumitur, ad aeſtimationem eſt adjicienda et de publico
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            praeſtatur, neque ulla poena tenetur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3980" xml:space="preserve">Cum vero amplius quam quarta
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            in opere conſumitur, ex ejus bonis ad perſiciendum pecunia exigitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3981" xml:space="preserve">Uti-
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            nam dii immortales ſeciſſent, quod ea lex etiam populo Romano, non
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            modo publicis, ſed etiam privatis aediſiciis eſſet conſtituta: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3982" xml:space="preserve">namque non
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            ſine poena graſſarentur imperiti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3983" xml:space="preserve">ſed qui ſumma doctrinarum ſubtilitate
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            eſſent prudentes, ſine dubitatione proſiterentur architecturam: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3984" xml:space="preserve">neque pa-
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            tres ſamiliarum inducerentur ad inſinitas ſumptuum proſuſiones, et ut </s>
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