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            biſogna, che affortifichino la Città loro non meno contro a ſuoi, che contro a
              <lb/>
            Foreſtieri: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5677" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5678" xml:space="preserve">talmẽte debbe eſſere afforzificata, che e’ poſſa a un biſogno ualerſi
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            delo aiuto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5679" xml:space="preserve">de ſuoi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5680" xml:space="preserve">de Foreſtieri ancora cõtro a ſuoi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5681" xml:space="preserve">Nel paſſato libro di-
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            moſtrãmo come ſi haueua a fortificare una Città contro a gli Inimici foreſtieri;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5682" xml:space="preserve">conſidereremo al preſente quel che ella uoglia hauere contro a nimici Terra-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-127-01" xlink:href="note-127-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            zani. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5683" xml:space="preserve">Euripide tiene per coſa certa, che la moltitudine naturalmente ſia uno
              <lb/>
            Inimico potentiſsimo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5684" xml:space="preserve">che ſe ella uorrà ridurre unitamente inſieme le fraudi,
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5685" xml:space="preserve">gli in ganni, diuenterà certamente ineſpugnabile. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5686" xml:space="preserve">I ſauiſsimi Re del Cairo
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            in Egitto, città dimaniera popolatiſsima, che e’ penſauano che allhora ella ſteſ-
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            ſe ſana, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5687" xml:space="preserve">bene, quando e’ non ui moriuano piu che mille huomini il giorno: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5688" xml:space="preserve">la
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-127-02" xlink:href="note-127-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            diuiſono con foſſe d’acqua tãto ſpeſſe, che ella non pareua di già una ſola Città,
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            ma molte picciole Terrecciole congiunte inſieme: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5689" xml:space="preserve">Et queſto credo io che e’ fa-
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            ceſsino, accioche la cõmodità de gli Impeti fuſſediuiſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5690" xml:space="preserve">ſparſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5691" xml:space="preserve">Et per q̃ſto
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            ottennero facilmente, che innanzi tratto non hauieno a temere de gli impor-
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            tanti motiui de la moltitudine; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5692" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5693" xml:space="preserve">ſecõdariamente di potere reprimere con fa-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-127-03" xlink:href="note-127-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            cilità, i detti motiui ſe pure ne naſceſſero; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5694" xml:space="preserve">non in altra maniera che auerrebe, ſe
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            di uno coloſſo grandiſsimo, ſe ne faceſsino due, o piu ſtatue, piu trattabili, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5695" xml:space="preserve">piu
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            portatili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5696" xml:space="preserve">I Romani non mandauano in Egitto alcuno Senatore, con autorità
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            Proconſolare, ma diſtribuiuano a ciaſcun luogo huomini de l’ordine de Caua-
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            lieri. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5697" xml:space="preserve">Ilche dice Arriano che eſsi faceuano, accioche una Prouin cia tanto dedi
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-127-04" xlink:href="note-127-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            ta a la innouatione di nuouitumulti, non fuſſe gouernata da un ſolo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5698" xml:space="preserve">Et con-
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            ſiderarono neſſuna Città eſlere ſtata ſenza diſcordie de Cittadini piu che q̃lle,
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            che o diuiſe da la natura, come che ſe ui paſſaſſe un fiume per il mezo, o doue fuſ
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            ſino collinette ſeparate in piu parti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5699" xml:space="preserve">o che ueramẽte poſte parte in piano, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5700" xml:space="preserve">par
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            te in colle, fuſsino diuiſe da alcuna muraglia commodiſsimamente; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5701" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5702" xml:space="preserve">tal diuiſio
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            ne non penſo io che ſi habbia a tirare come un Diametro a trauerſo d’una pian-
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            ta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5703" xml:space="preserve">ma come rinchiudere un circuito in un altro: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5704" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che i piu Ric-
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            chi come quegli, che uorrieno il paeſe piu largo, ſopporteranno facilmen-
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            te d’eſſere laſciati fuori del primo cerchio; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5705" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5706" xml:space="preserve">laſceranno uolentieri a le Bec-
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            cherie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5707" xml:space="preserve">ale altre botteghe, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5708" xml:space="preserve">a Trecconi, il mezzo della Città per il Mer-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-127-06" xlink:href="note-127-06a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
            cato; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5709" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5710" xml:space="preserve">la poltrona Turba del Terentiano Gnatone, cioè Pizzicagnoli,
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            Beccai, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5711" xml:space="preserve">Cuochi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5712" xml:space="preserve">ſimili arrecherà piu ſicurtà, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5713" xml:space="preserve">manco ſoſpetto, che ſe
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            ella non fuſſe ſeparata da Cittadini piu nobili. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5714" xml:space="preserve">Nè ſia fuori di propoſito, quel
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            che ſi legge ne gli ſcritti di Feſto, che Seruio Tullio comandò a Patritij, che
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            andaſsino ad habitare nel Borgo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5715" xml:space="preserve">accioche ſe egli haueſſero cerco habitan-
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            do in quelluogo di fare innouatione, ſtandoui egli ſopra a ridoſſo, egli poteſ-
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            ſe opprimere in un ſubito. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5716" xml:space="preserve">Queſto muro dentro a la Terra biſogna murarlo
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            di maniera, che paſsi per tutte le reggioni de la città, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5717" xml:space="preserve">di groſſezza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5718" xml:space="preserve">d’ogni
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            altra ſorte di lauoro biſogna alzarlo gagliardiſsimo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5719" xml:space="preserve">altiſsimo, fino a tanto
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            che ſoprauanzi a tutti i Tetti de gli edificij priuati. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5720" xml:space="preserve">Et biſognerà forſe ancora
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            aftortificarlo di Torri, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5721" xml:space="preserve">di merlature, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5722" xml:space="preserve">di foſſe ancora da ogni banda, ac-
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            cioche i tuoi Soldati nel ſtarui dentro, mediante quelle difeſi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5723" xml:space="preserve">ſicuri, da per
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            tutto lo poſsino difendere; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5724" xml:space="preserve">Biſogna che le ſue Torri non ſieno aperte da lo
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            lato di dentro, machiuſe di muro per tutto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5725" xml:space="preserve">biſogna che le ſieno eſpoſte </s>
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