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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            receſſus, (Galli zctranchements.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1016" xml:space="preserve">Idcirco nollem corti-
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            nas eſſe flexas, niſi ſitus lociid à nobis extorqueret: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1017" xml:space="preserve">im-
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            mo vellem eas directas eſſe ab vno propugnaculo ad
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            aliud. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1018" xml:space="preserve">Cortinas autem nollem ita longas, vt ſolæ ma-
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            jores bombardæ primæ plateæ poſſent euerrere pro-
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            pugnaculifrontes, ſed etiam bombardæ minores. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1019" xml:space="preserve">Alij
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            forſan dicent, cortina breuiori exiſtente, bombardas
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            majores offenſuras ipſa arcis propugnacula: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1020" xml:space="preserve">huic ob-
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            jectioni ita reſpondeo: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1021" xml:space="preserve">Vbi hoſtis arcem oppugnat,
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            bombardas majores non debere ad defenſionem arcis
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            pilas ejaculari: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1022" xml:space="preserve">verùm debent eæ bombardæ farciri
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            ſquammis ferri, vel alterius metalli, lapidibus vel cate-
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            nis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1023" xml:space="preserve">ſic enim mirabiles effectus patrant in oppugnan-
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            tes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1024" xml:space="preserve">in eos qui ſcalis admotis in murum aſcendunt.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1025" xml:space="preserve">Pila majorum bombardarum vires ſuas exeret, quum
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            foſſa repleta fuerit aceruis lapidum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1026" xml:space="preserve">pilâ enim aceruos
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            illos feriente, lapides hinc atque hinc diſiecti innume-
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            ros oppugnantium neci dabunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1027" xml:space="preserve">Hæc etíam major
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            pila conducet ad rumpendas foſſas tranſuerſas, (Galli
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            tranchees,) & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1028" xml:space="preserve">alia machinamenta, quæ ab hoſtibus in
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            arcis foſſa parantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1029" xml:space="preserve">Præterea, ſi cortina ſit longitudi-
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            nis mediocris, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1030" xml:space="preserve">apta ad vſum minorum bombarda-
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            rum, certum eſt ipſarum fulminationes, perniciem ho-
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            ſtium eſſe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1031" xml:space="preserve">fulcrum ipſius arcis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1032" xml:space="preserve">quia, in omni op-
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            pugnatione, hoſtes ſeſe ſub cortina ſubdunt cum foſ-
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            ſis tranſuerſis, diruendo murum extrinſecum, vel im-
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            plendo ipſam foſſam, vt opera ligonis ſubuertendo
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            cortinam vel propugnaculum, ſibi ſcalam & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1033" xml:space="preserve">aſcenſum
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            parent ad ſaliendum in ipſam arcem.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1035" xml:space="preserve">Aqua in foſſa vtilis eſt, quum arx in eo loco ſita eſt,
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            qui pleroſq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1036" xml:space="preserve">hoſtes in vicinia habet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1037" xml:space="preserve">Tunc enim aqua </s>
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