Vitruvius
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De architectura libri decem
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1567
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tur, quorum exitus iudiciorum qui fuerint, non eſt alienum, quem admodum ſint nobis traditin, ex-
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mi ad communem delectationem inſtituiſſent. </
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citatus ſtudio, non minoribus induſtrijs ad eundem modum contenderat Alexandriæ comparare. </
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autem ſumma diligentia profeciſſet, non putauit id ſatis eſſe, niſi propagationibus in ſeminando cu-
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munium ſcriptorum uictoribus præmia, & </
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iudices literati, qui ea probarent, erant legendi. </
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tam cito ſeptimum idoneum inueniret, retulitad eos, qui ſupra bibliothecam fuerant, & </
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ſummaq́; </
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ſecretæ ſedes iudicibus eſſent diſtributæ, cum cæteris Ariſtophanes citatus, quemadmodum fuerat
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locus ei deſignatus, ſedit. </
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populus cunctus ſignificando monebat iudices, quod probarent. </
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præmium, inſequenti ſecundum tribuerunt. </
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indignarentur, ſurrexit, & </
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lumina eduxit, & </
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bus ornauit, & </
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Odiſſeam comparata regi recitauit. </
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uituperari, indignatus nullum ei dedit reſponſum. </
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preſſus, ſummiſit ad regem poſtulans, ut aliquid ſibi tribueretur. </
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merum, qui ante annos mille deceſsiſſet æuo perpetuo, multa millia hominum paſcere, item debere,
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qui meliori ingenio ſe profiteretur, non modo ſe unum, ſed etiam plures alere poſſe. </
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fixum, nonnulli in eum lapides eſſe coniectos, alij Smyrnæ uiuum in pyram coniectum, quorum utrũ
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ei acciderit, merenti digna conſtitit pœna. </
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reſponſum quid ſenſerint ſcribentes, non poteſt coram iudicari. </
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tui ex eo me approbare, ſed omnibus ſcriptorbus inſinitas ago gratias de egregijs ingeniotum ſoler-
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tijs ex æuo collatis, abundantes alijs, alio genere copias præparauerunt. </
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eorum habens, quos ad propoſiti mei rationes animaduerti præparatas, inde ſumendo progredi cœ-
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oporteat adaciem oculorum, radiorumq́ extenſionem certo loco centro conſtituto ad lineas ratio-
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ne naturali reſpondere, uti de incerta re certæ imagines ædificiorum in ſcenarum picturis redderent
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excellentia coegit ad ſeptem ſpectaculorum eius operis peruenire famam. </
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des, Silanion, Melampus, Sarnacus, Euphranor, non minus de machinationibus, uti Cliades, Archi-
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