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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            uti os capitis a mento ad frontem ſummam et radices imas capilli eſſet
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            decimae partis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1570" xml:space="preserve">Item manus palma ab articulo ad extremum medium
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            digitum tantundem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1571" xml:space="preserve">Caput a mento ad ſummum verticem octavae; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1572" xml:space="preserve">tan-
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            tundem ab cervicibus imis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1573" xml:space="preserve">Ab ſummo pectore ad imas radices capillo-
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            rum ſextae; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1574" xml:space="preserve">ad ſummum verticem, quartae. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1575" xml:space="preserve">Ipſius autem oris altitudi-
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            nis tertia pars eſt ab imo mento ad imas nares; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1576" xml:space="preserve">naſus ab imis naribus
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            ad finem medium ſuperciliorum tantundem; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1577" xml:space="preserve">ab ea ſine ad imas radices
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            capilli, ubi frons efficitur, item tertiae partis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1578" xml:space="preserve">Pes vero altitudinis
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            corporis ſextae. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1579" xml:space="preserve">Cubitus quartae. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1580" xml:space="preserve">Pectus item quartae. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1581" xml:space="preserve">Reliqua quo-
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            que membra ſuos habent commenſus proportionis, quibus etiam antiqui
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            pictores et ſtatuarii nobiles uſi magnas et inſinitas laudes ſunt aſſecuti.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1582" xml:space="preserve">Similiter vero ſacrarum aedium membra ad univerſam totius magnitudi-
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            nis ſummam ex partibus ſingulis convenientiſſimum debent habere com-
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            menſuum reſponſum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1583" xml:space="preserve">Item corporis centrum medium naturaliter eſt um-
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            bilicus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1584" xml:space="preserve">Namque ſi homo collocatus fuerit ſupinus, manibus et pedibus
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            panſis, circinique collocatum centrum in umbilico ejus, circumagendo ro-
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            tundationem utrarumque manuum et pedum digiti linea tangentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1585" xml:space="preserve">Non
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            minus quemadmodum ſchema rotundationis in corpore efficitur, item
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            quadrata deſignatio in eo invenitur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1586" xml:space="preserve">Nam ſi a pedibus imis ad ſummum
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            caput menſum erit, eaque menſura relata fuerit ad manus panſas, inve-
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            nietur eadem latitudo, uti altitudo, quemadmodum areae, quae ad nor-
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            mam ſunt quadratae. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1587" xml:space="preserve">Ergo ſi ita natura compoſuit corpus hominis, uti
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            proportionibus membra ad ſummam ſigurationem ejus reſpondeant, cum
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            cauſa conſtituiſſe videntur antiqui, ut etiam in operum perſectionibus ſin-
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            gulorum membrorum ad univerſam figurae ſpeciem habeant commenſus
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            exactionem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1588" xml:space="preserve">Igitur cum in omnibus operibus ordines traderent, id ma-
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            xime in aedibus deorum, in quibus operum laudes et culpae aeternae
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            ſolent permanere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1589" xml:space="preserve">Nec minus menſurarum rationes quae in omnibus
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            operibus videntur neceſſariae eſſe, ex corporis membris collegerunt, </s>
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