Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem ad Caesarem Augustum, omnibus omnium editionibus longè emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis
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              <pb o="29" file="049" n="49" rhead="DE ARCHITEC. LIB. I."/>
            directos ventos erunt conformatæ, ex aperto cœli ſpatio impetus ac fla-
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            tus frequens concluſus in faucibus angiportorum, vehementioribus viri-
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            bus peruagabitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2654" xml:space="preserve">Quas ob res conuertendæ ſunt ab regionibus vento-
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            rum directiones vicorum, vti aduenientes ad angulos inſularum fran-
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            gantur, repulſiq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2655" xml:space="preserve">diſsipentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2656" xml:space="preserve">Fortaſſe mirabuntur ij, qui multa vento-
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            rum nomina nouerunt, quod à nobis expoſitum ſit tantummodo octo eſ-
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            ſe ventos. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2657" xml:space="preserve">Si autem animaduerterint, orbis terræ circuitionem per ſolis
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            curſum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2658" xml:space="preserve">gnomonis æquinoctialis vmbras, ex inclinatione cœli, ab Era-
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            coſthene Cyreneo, rationibus Mathematicis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2659" xml:space="preserve">Geometricis methodis,
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            eſſe inuentam ducentorum quinquaginta duum milium ſtadiorum, quæ
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            fiunt paſſus ſemel & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2660" xml:space="preserve">tricies millies mille & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2661" xml:space="preserve">quingenties mille, buius au-
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            tem octaua pars, quàm ventus tenere videtur, eſt ter millies mille, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2662" xml:space="preserve">no-
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            ningenties trigeſies ſepties mille, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2663" xml:space="preserve">paſſus quingenti: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2664" xml:space="preserve">non debebunt mira-
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            ri, ſi in tam magno ſpatio vnus ventus vagando, inclinationibus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2665" xml:space="preserve">receſ-
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            ſionibus varietates mutatione flatus faciat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2666" xml:space="preserve">Itaque dextra & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2667" xml:space="preserve">ſiniſtra circa
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            Auſtrum, Euronotus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2668" xml:space="preserve">Altanus flare ſolet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2669" xml:space="preserve">Circa Aphricum, Libono-
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            tus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2670" xml:space="preserve">Subueſperus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2671" xml:space="preserve">Circa Fauonium, Argeſtes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2672" xml:space="preserve">certis temporibus
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            Eteſiæ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2673" xml:space="preserve">ad latera Cauri, Circius & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2674" xml:space="preserve">Corus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2675" xml:space="preserve">Circa Septentrionem, Thraſcias
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2676" xml:space="preserve">Gallicus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2677" xml:space="preserve">Dextra ac ſiniſtra circa Aquilonem, Supernas & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2678" xml:space="preserve">Boreas. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2679" xml:space="preserve">Cir-
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            ca Solanum, Carbas, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2680" xml:space="preserve">certo tempore Ornithiæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2681" xml:space="preserve">Euri verò medias partes
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            tenent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2682" xml:space="preserve">in extremis, Cæcias & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2683" xml:space="preserve">Volturnus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2684" xml:space="preserve">Sunt autem & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2685" xml:space="preserve">alia plura no-
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            mina flatusq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2686" xml:space="preserve">ventorum, à locis, aut fluminibus, aut montium procellis
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            tracta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2687" xml:space="preserve">Præterea auræ matutinæ, quas ſol cum emergit de ſubterranea
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            parte, verſando pulſat aëris humorem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2688" xml:space="preserve">impetu ſcandendo trudens, ex-
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            primit aurarum antelucano ſpiritu flatus, quicum exorto ſole perman-
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            ſerint, Euri venti tenent partes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2689" xml:space="preserve">Et ea re quòd ex auris procreatur, à Græ-
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            cis {συ}
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            ρ{ος} videtur eſſe appellatus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2690" xml:space="preserve">Craſtinus quoque dies, propter auras
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            matutinas, ἄνρισμ fertur eſſe vocitatus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2691" xml:space="preserve">Sunt autem nonnulli, qui negant
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            Eratoſthenem veram menſuram orbis terræ potuiſſe colligere, quæ ſiue
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            eſt certa, ſiue non vera, non poteſt noſtra ſcriptura non veras habere ter-
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            minationes regionum, vnde ventorum ſpiritus oriuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2692" xml:space="preserve">Ergo ſi ita eſt,
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            tantum erit, vti non certam menſuræ rationem, ſed aut maiores impetus,
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            aut minores, habeant ſinguli venti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2693" xml:space="preserve">Quoniam hæc à nobis ſunt breuiter
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            expoſita, vt facilius intelligantur, viſum eſt mihi in extremo volumine
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            formam, ſiue vti Græci χηματα dicunt, duo explicare: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2694" xml:space="preserve">vnum ita defor-
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            matum, vt appareat vnde certi ventorum ſpiritus oriantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2695" xml:space="preserve">alterũ quem-
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            admodum ab impetu eorum, aduerſis directionibus vicorum & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2696" xml:space="preserve">platea-
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            rum, euitentur nocentes flatus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2697" xml:space="preserve">Erit autem in exæquata planicie centrum,
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            vbi eſt litera A, gnomonis autem antemeridiana vmbra, vbi eſt B, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2698" xml:space="preserve">ab
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            centro vbi eſt A, diducto circino ad id ſignum vmbræ, vbi eſt B, circum-
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            agatur linea rotundationis, repoſito autem gnomone vbiantea fuerat, </s>
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