Vitruvius, Marci Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem : ope codicis Guelferbytani, editionis principis, ceterorumque subsidiorum recensuit, et glossario in quo vocabula artis propria Germ. Ital. Gall. et Angl. explicantur, 1800
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              <pb o="129" file="0153" n="153" rhead="LIBER VI. PRAEFATIO."/>
            tantum ſapientes, qui pecunia ſunt copioſi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2541" xml:space="preserve">Itaque plerique ad id pro-
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            poſitum contendentes, audacia adhibita cum divitiis etiam notitiam ſunt
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            conſecuti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2542" xml:space="preserve">Ego autem, Caeſar, non ad pecuniam parandam ex arte dedi
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            ſtudium; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2543" xml:space="preserve">ſed potius tenuitatem cum bona fama, quam abundantiam cum
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            infamia ſequendam probavi; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2544" xml:space="preserve">ideo notities parum eſt aſſecuta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2545" xml:space="preserve">ſed tamen
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            his voluminibus editis (ut ſpero) poſteris etiam ero notus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2546" xml:space="preserve">Neque eſt
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            mirandum, quid ita pluribus ſim ignotus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2547" xml:space="preserve">Ceteri architecti rogant et
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            ambiunt, ut architectentur; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2548" xml:space="preserve">mihi autem a praeceptoribus eſt traditum,
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            rogatum non rogantem oportere ſuſcipere curam, quod ingenuus color
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            movetur pudore, petendo rem ſuſpicioſam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2549" xml:space="preserve">Nam beneſicium dantes, non
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            accipientes, ambiuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2550" xml:space="preserve">Quid enim putemus ſuſpicari, qui rogetur de
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            patrimonio ſumptus faciendos committere gratiae petentis, niſi quod
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            praedae compendiique ejus cauſa judicet faciendum? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2551" xml:space="preserve">Itaque majores
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            primum a genere probatis, opera tradebant architectis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2552" xml:space="preserve">Deinde quae- rebant ſi honeſte eſſent educati: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2553" xml:space="preserve">ingenuo pudori, non audaciae protervi-
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            tatis committendum judicantes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2554" xml:space="preserve">Ipſi autem artiſices non erudiebant niſi
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            ſuos liberos aut cognatos, et eos viros bonos inſtituebant, quorum fidei
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            tantarum rerum pecuniae ſine dubitatione permitterentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2555" xml:space="preserve">Cum autem animadverto ab indoctis et imperitis tantae diſciplinae magnitudinem ja-
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            ctari, et ab his qui non modo architecturae, ſed omnino ne fabricae
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            quidem notitiam habent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2556" xml:space="preserve">non poſſum non laudare patresfamilias eos, qui
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            literaturae fiducia confirmati per ſe aedificantes, ita judicant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2557" xml:space="preserve">ſi imperi-
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            tis ſit committendum, ipſos potius digniores eſſe ad ſuam voluntatem
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            quam ad alienam pecuniae conſumere ſummam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2558" xml:space="preserve">Itaque nemo artem
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            ullam aliam conatur domi facere, uti ſutrinam, vel ſullonicam, aut ex
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            ceteris quae ſunt faciliores, niſi architecturam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2559" xml:space="preserve">ideo quod qui profiten-
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              <note symbol="2)" position="foot" xlink:label="note-0153-01" xlink:href="note-0153-01a" xml:space="preserve">Cod. ms. et E. S. item Cod. Fran. operam.</note>
              <note symbol="3)" position="foot" xlink:label="note-0153-02" xlink:href="note-0153-02a" xml:space="preserve">Alias: quibus tantarum rerum fidei.</note>
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