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            tro a le percoſſe de le Macchine da guerra:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4864" xml:space="preserve">Et certo, per tradimenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4865" xml:space="preserve">per tirare
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            le freccie, le giouano non poco a gli nimici, hauendo eſsi maſsimo commodità
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            di poter ſcorrere la campagna, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4866" xml:space="preserve">di ritirarſi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4867" xml:space="preserve">Niente dimeno le ſono alcuna
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            uolta digrandiſsimo aiuto, ne le Città di montagna, eſſendo poſte a riſcontro de
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            le ſtrade. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4868" xml:space="preserve">A Perugia celebratiſsima Città, per hauere ella i Borghi ſparſi ſu ꝑ
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            i Colli, non altrimenti che le dita de le Mani, che ſi ſporgono in fuori, ſe inimici
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            uorranno dar l'aſalto a la Cantonata, poi che ui ſaranno andati cõ molta gente,
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            non haranno donde aſſaltarla, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4869" xml:space="preserve">quaſi meſsiſi ſotto una fortezza, non ſaranno
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            baſtanti a ſoſtenere l'impeto de le coſe, che gli ſarãno tratte, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4870" xml:space="preserve">la carica che uer-
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            rà loro adoſſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4871" xml:space="preserve">Et però non ſi deue tenere il medeſimo modo di cerchiare le
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-110-02" xlink:href="note-110-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            Terre di Mura, in tutti i luoghi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4872" xml:space="preserve">Oltra queſto dicono gli Antichi, che le Città,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4873" xml:space="preserve">le Naui, non douerriano per alcun modo eſlere tanto grãdi, che uote barcol-
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            laſsino, o piene, non baſtaſsino. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4874" xml:space="preserve">Ma altri hanno uoluto la loro Città piena, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4875" xml:space="preserve">
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            pinza, penſando per queſto, che ella fuſſe piu ſicura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4876" xml:space="preserve">Altri promettendoſi una
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            ottima ſperanza, ne le coſe che haueſsino a uenire, ſi dilettarono di hauerui grã
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-110-03" xlink:href="note-110-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            diſsimi ſpatij. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4877" xml:space="preserve">Altri forſe proueddono con conſiglio, a la fama, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4878" xml:space="preserve">al nome de
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            Poſteri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4879" xml:space="preserve">Imperoche la Città certo del Sole, edificata da Buſiride, la quale chia-
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            mano Tebe, ſecõdo che io truouo ne le Storie de gli Antichi, girò uenti miglia.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4880" xml:space="preserve">Menfi diciotto miglia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4881" xml:space="preserve">ſei ottaui. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4882" xml:space="preserve">Babillonia quarãtatre miglia, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4883" xml:space="preserve">ſei ottaui. </s>
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            Niniue miglia ſeſſanta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4885" xml:space="preserve">Et furono alcuni, che rinchiuſono tanto di Terreno,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-110-04" xlink:href="note-110-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            che dentro al circuito de la Città ricoglieuano da uiuere p tutto l'anno. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4886" xml:space="preserve">Quinci
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            loderei io quello antico prouerbio che dice, in tutte le coſe ſi debbe ſeruare
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            ordine, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4887" xml:space="preserve">regola, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4888" xml:space="preserve">ſe e' mi piaceſſe di gettarmi da una de le parti, mi getterei
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            piu preſto a queſta, che poteſsi commodamente riceuere la accreſciuta mol-
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            titudine de Cittadini, che a quella che non può riceuere i ſuoi commodiſsi-
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            mamente. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4889" xml:space="preserve">Aggiugni che la Città non debbe eſſer fatta ſolamente per lo uſo
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4890" xml:space="preserve">per la neceſsità de Tetti, ma debbe eſſer fatta di maniera, che oltre a le cu-
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            re ciuili, ui rimanghino grandiſsimi luoghi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4891" xml:space="preserve">ſpatij per piazze, per correrui
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            con le carrette, per Orti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4892" xml:space="preserve">per ſpaſſeggiare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4893" xml:space="preserve">per notare, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4894" xml:space="preserve">per ſimili or-
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            namenti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4895" xml:space="preserve">dilicatezze. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4896" xml:space="preserve">Raccontano gli antichi, Varrone, Plutarco, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4897" xml:space="preserve">altri,
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            che i paſſati loro erano ſoliti di diſegnare le mura de le Città con religione,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4898" xml:space="preserve">ordini ſacri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4899" xml:space="preserve">Percioche, hauendo prima preſi lungamente gli Augurij, meſ-
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            ſi ad uno giogo uno Bue, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4900" xml:space="preserve">una Vacca, tirauano uno aratolo di Bronzo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4901" xml:space="preserve">ſi fa-
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            ceua il primo Solco, con ilquale diſegnauano il Circuito de le Mura, ſtando
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            la Vacca da lo lato di dentro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4902" xml:space="preserve">il Bue da lo lato di fuora. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4903" xml:space="preserve">I uecchi Padri, che
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            douieno habitare la Terra, ſeguitauano lo Aratro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4904" xml:space="preserve">rimetteuano nel feſſo
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            Solco, le ſmoſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4905" xml:space="preserve">ſparſe zolle, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4906" xml:space="preserve">raſſetandouele dentro, acciò non ſe ne ſpargeſ-
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            ſe alcuna; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4907" xml:space="preserve">quando arriuauano a luoghi de le porte, ſoſteneuano lo aratolo
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            con le mani: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4908" xml:space="preserve">Accioche la ſoglia de le porte rimaneſſe ſalda, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4909" xml:space="preserve">perciò diceua-
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            no che eccetto le porte, tutto il cerchio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4910" xml:space="preserve">tutta l'opera era coſa ſacra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4911" xml:space="preserve">non
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            era lecito chiamare le porte ſacre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4912" xml:space="preserve">A tempi di Romulo, dice Dioniſio Alicar-
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            naſeo, che i P @dri antichi, nel principiare le Città, erano ſoliti, fatto il ſacrificio
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            di accendere il fuoco inanzi a loro Allogiamenti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4913" xml:space="preserve">Et per eſſo far paſſare il Po-
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            polo, accioche nel paſſare per le fiamme, gli huomini ſi purifica sino, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4914" xml:space="preserve">ſi </s>
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