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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            aliis numero ſufficienti, qui attentè poſſint inſpicere & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1226" xml:space="preserve">notare ambitum ciuitatis, ſitum ipſius, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1227" xml:space="preserve">quæ pars commodior ſit ad collocandas bombardas foſſarum tranſuerſarum ope, (Galli tranchccs.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1228" xml:space="preserve">Debet autem in primis aduertere, vt terra ſit ejus generis, quæ facilè poſſit tractari, tum ad foſſas ducendas, tum ad alia o- pera militaria, quæ neceſſaria ſunt quo ſe ab hoſtibus tueatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1229" xml:space="preserve">Verùm impoſſibile eſt exactè recognoſcere, vel interdiu vel noctu omnia ea quæ pertinent ad eam ciuitatem vel arcem: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1230" xml:space="preserve">quia interdiu hoſtes non ſinent id liberè fieri, ſi ſaltem animis valeant: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1231" xml:space="preserve">noctu verò, pro- pter obſcuritatem nequimus metiri latera nec foſſam, nec alia pleraque inſpicere, quæ neceſſaria ſunt ei qui exactè & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1232" xml:space="preserve">conſideratè ſe vult ad eam expugnationem accingere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1233" xml:space="preserve">Sed hoc bene & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1234" xml:space="preserve">commodiſſimè fiet, quan- do foſſas tuas perduxeris vſque ad ciuitatis foſſam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1235" xml:space="preserve">Illic ipſemet Imperator poterit commodè ſingula videre, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1236" xml:space="preserve">certior fieri eorum omnium quæ reſcire deſiderat.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1237" xml:space="preserve"> De modo autem haſce foſſas tranſuerſas faciendi variæ ſunt opiniones. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1238" xml:space="preserve">nos, vt in hoc etiam lectoriſatisfacere- mus, varia earum genera deſignauimus, quæ commo- diora & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1239" xml:space="preserve">ſecuriora judicauimus, quæq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1240" xml:space="preserve">citiùs parari poſſunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1241" xml:space="preserve">Sed ante omnia recordetur Imperator, in illis foſſis loca ſtatuere, in quibus cum ſecuritate collocet corpora præſidiaria (corps de gazde) ita diſpoſita vt al- terum altero ſuppetias ferre poſſit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1242" xml:space="preserve">Sint etiam in illis foſſis exitus, ſeu viæ per quas illinc exeatur, vt ex noſtris deſcriptionibus apparebit, ac etiam in decima ſeptima figura.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1244" xml:space="preserve">Hoc facto eliges locum ad locandas bombardas,
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            cum ſuis pluteis, reliquisq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1245" xml:space="preserve">inſtrumentis ad eas perti- </s>
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