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            ſimamente erano diuiſi in quattro ſquadre. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11472" xml:space="preserve">Ciaſcuna de le quali era ueſtita del
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            ſuo proprio colore, alcuni per ſignificare la primauera ſi ueſtiuano di uerde, per
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            l'eſtate di roſſo, per il Pallido Autunno di bianco, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11473" xml:space="preserve">per la triſta inuernata di Ta
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            nè ſcuro. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11474" xml:space="preserve">La piazza del mezo de cerchi, non era libera, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11475" xml:space="preserve">eſpedita, come quel-
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            la'de gli Amfiteatri, nè come quella de Teatri occupata da palchi: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11476" xml:space="preserve">ma per il dirit-
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            to de lo lungo diuiſo no la piazza in duoi corſi, o in due larghezze rizzandoui in
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            luoghi accomodati le Mete, o i Termini intorno a quali giucando correnano i
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            Cauagli, o gli huomini, i Termini principali erano tre, de quali quello del mezo
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            era il piu degno di tutti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11477" xml:space="preserve">era quadro groſſo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11478" xml:space="preserve">andaua tutta uia aſſottigliandoſi
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            uerſo la cima, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11479" xml:space="preserve">per queſto aſſottigliamento lo chiamauano obeliſco, hoggi
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            Aguglia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11480" xml:space="preserve">gli altri duoi termini erano due grandisſime ſtatue, o due creſte, ouero
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            altezze di muro con le teſte molto alte, fatte in quel modo che piu era parſo al
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            maeſtro conueniente; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11481" xml:space="preserve">a far che elle haueſſero del gratiato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11482" xml:space="preserve">del grande, ne me-
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            zi di queſte metteuano due, o colonne, o Aguglie minori da ciaſcuna de le ban-
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            de. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11483" xml:space="preserve">Io truouo che il Circo Masſimo di Roma, ſecondo gli hiſtorici, era lungo
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            tre ottaui di miglio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11484" xml:space="preserve">largo uno, ilquale a mio tempo è rouinato, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11485" xml:space="preserve">non ſi uede
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            per alcuna coniettura pur piccola, come ſi fuſſe fatto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11486" xml:space="preserve">Ma in altri luoghi truo-
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            uo per le miſure di sì fatti lauori che egli erano coſi fatti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11487" xml:space="preserve">Soleuano gli antichi
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            fare la piazza del mezo de cerchi, larga almanco ſeſſanta cubiti, cioè braccia xl.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11488" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11489" xml:space="preserve">tanto lunga che la larghezza ui entraſſe dentro ſette uolte, la larghezza ſi di-
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            uideua in due parti uguali, tirando per lo lungo una linea giù per il mezo, ſopra
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            de laquale ſi collocauano le Mete, o i Termini in queſto modo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11490" xml:space="preserve">Diuideuano que
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            ſta lunghezza in ſette parti, una ne aſſegnauano a la riuolta, ch'occuperebbono,
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            i giucatori intorno a l'ultima meta, ne l'andare correndo dalla deſtra nella ſini-
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            ſtra; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11491" xml:space="preserve">diſtribuiuano poi l'altre Mete ſu per la medeſima linea, di maniera, che ne
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            la lunghezza del cerchio fusſino ugualmẽte lõtane l'una da l'altra, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11492" xml:space="preserve">occupaſſero
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            di tutta la lunghezza cinq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11493" xml:space="preserve">ſettimi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11494" xml:space="preserve">era congiunta l'una meta con l'altra con un
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            piano rileuato da terra non meno di ſei piedi, che ſeparaua talmente di quà, & </s>
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            di là gli duoi ſpatii del cotſo, che, o ſolo, o accompagnati i Caualli che giucaua-
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            no, ancor che e' ſi uoltaſſero, non haueuano donde poteſſero attrauerſare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11496" xml:space="preserve">Et
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            di quà & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11497" xml:space="preserve">di là, a' lati de cerchi, ſi faceuano gradi da ſedere non piu che per il quin
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            to, nè manco che per il ſeſto di tutta la larghezza de la piazza di mezo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11498" xml:space="preserve">i gradi
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            da ſedere cominciauano apunto a la uguale altezza, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11499" xml:space="preserve">al piano del rilieuo, o im-
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            baſamento, ſopra ilquale erano collocate le Mete, accioche gli huomini non
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            portasſino, sì come non faceuano anco ne gli Amſiteatri, pericolo alcuno da
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            le beſtie.</s>
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