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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              <pb o="228" file="0252" n="252" rhead="M. VITRUVII P. DE ARCHITECTURA"/>
            bonis ejicerentur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3985" xml:space="preserve">ipſique architecti, poenae timore coacti, diligentius mo-
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            dum impenſarum ratiocinantes explicarent, uti patres ſamiliarum ad id,
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            quod praeparaviſſent, ſeu paulo amplius adjicientes, aediſicia expedirent.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3986" xml:space="preserve">Nam qui quadringenta ad opus poſſunt parare, ſi adjiciant centum, haben-
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            do ſpem perfectionis, delectationibus tenentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3987" xml:space="preserve">Qui autem adjectione di-
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            midia, aut ampliore ſumptu onerantur, amiſſa ſpe, et impenſa abjecta,
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            fractis rebus et animis, deſiſtere coguntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3988" xml:space="preserve">Nec ſolum id vitium in aedi-
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            ſiciis, ſed etiam in muneribus, quae a magiſtratibus foro gladiatorum ſce-
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            nisque ludorum dantur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3989" xml:space="preserve">quibus nec mora, neque expectatio conceditur,
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            ſed neceſſitas ſinito tempore perſicere cogit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3990" xml:space="preserve">uti ſunt ſedes ſpectaculorum,
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            velorumque inductiones, et ea omnia, quae ſcenicis moribus per machi-
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            nationem ad ſpectationes populo comparantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3991" xml:space="preserve">In his vero opus eſt
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            prudentia diligenti et ingenii doctiſſimi cogitatu, quod nihil eorum perſi-
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            citur ſine machinatione, ſtudiorumque vario ac ſolerti vigore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3992" xml:space="preserve">Igitur quo-
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            niam haec ita ſunt tradita et conſtituta, non videtur eſſe alienum, uti
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            caute ſummaque diligentia, antequam inſtituantur opera, eorum expedi-
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            antur rationes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3993" xml:space="preserve">Ergo quoniam neque lex neque morum inſtitutio id po-
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            teſt cogere, et quotannis et praetores et aediles ludorum cauſa machina-
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            tiones praeparare debent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3994" xml:space="preserve">viſum mihi eſt, Imperator, non eſſe alienum,
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            quoniam de aediſiciis in prioribus voluminibus expoſui, in hoc, qui ſini-
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            tionem ſummam corporis habet conſtitutam, quae ſint principia machi-
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            narum ordinata praeceptis explicare.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head111" style="it" xml:space="preserve">CAPUT I.
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          De machina et ejus ab organo diſferentia.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3996" xml:space="preserve">Machina eſt continens ex materia conjunctio, maximas ad onerum mo-
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            tus habens virtutes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3997" xml:space="preserve">Ea movetur ex arte circulorum rotundationibus
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            quam Graeci κυχλικὴρ χίνὴσιν appellant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3998" xml:space="preserve">Eſt autem unum genus </s>
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