Cataneo, Girolamo, Hier. Cataneus de arte bellica, sive, de designandis ac construendis arcibus & propugnaculis, necnon & de iis oppugnandis, expugnandis ac propugnandis : de itinere exercitus, ac castrametatione, quando expediat manus cum hoste conserere, 1600

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            ſunt in platea ſuperiori poſſint vltra medium foſſæ in- ſpicere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s996" xml:space="preserve">Poſſet etiam accidere, vt ſuper hoc fornice poſſent collocari milites cum bonis ſclopetis ad ipſius foſſæ defenſionem, quia hoſce fornices contegit auri- cula. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s997" xml:space="preserve">Hoc etiam præſtant hi fornices, ne pilæ ejacula- tæ à bombardis hoſtium (qui ſunt ſuper aggere extrin- ſeco) obturare queant primas feneſtias tormentarias.</s>
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              <emph style="sc">Iam</emph>
            dicemus de introitu ſiue porta, quæ fit vt per
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            eam in arcem ingrediamur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1000" xml:space="preserve">Hæc fit in medio cortinæ,
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            ſeu juxta vnum propugnaculi latus, cum ſuo ponte li-
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            gneo, vt obſidionis tempore poſſit deſtrui vel com-
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            buri pons ille. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1001" xml:space="preserve">Sit autem hæc porta ita depreſſa, vt ab
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            aggere extrinſeco perſpici non poſſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1002" xml:space="preserve">In introitu ipſius
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            portæ vellem eſſe locum aliquem ſaluum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1003" xml:space="preserve">idq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1004" xml:space="preserve">multis
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            de cauſis, ſed præcipuè, vt illic arma militum in tuto
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            eſſe poſſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1005" xml:space="preserve">In pinnæ fundamento, vel juxta propu-
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            gnaculi latus fit exitus, quo milites, dum arx oppugna-
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            tur, poſſint extra exire, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1006" xml:space="preserve">poſſint etiam tutari foſſam,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1007" xml:space="preserve">amouere ruinas ab oppugnatione factas: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1008" xml:space="preserve">alioquin
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            hæ ruinæ impedimento ſunt feneſtris tormentariis, & </s>
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            faciliorem aſcenſum hoſti præbent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1010" xml:space="preserve">Multi vellent cor-
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            tinas arcem verſus quaſi plicatas eſſe, cum plana forma
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            introrſum vel extrorſum, vel cum vallo prominenti in
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            plicatura ſeu angulo ipſius cortinæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1011" xml:space="preserve">Hi opinionẽ ſuam
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            firmant, dicendo, hoſtes ſic magis offendi poſſe, eorũq́;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1012" xml:space="preserve">oppugnationem obliquiorem eſſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1013" xml:space="preserve">obliqua autem op-
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            pugnatio non ita offendit vt recta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1014" xml:space="preserve">At certum eſt, ſi
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            hocce modo exſtruerentur cortinæ, non poſſe propu-
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            gnaculorum plateas ita amplas eſſe vt ſuprà diximus,
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            nec eorum humeri ita firmi vt bombardarum ictus
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            pati poſſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1015" xml:space="preserve">Prætereà hoc modo non facilè fierent </s>
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