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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            in planitie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s452" xml:space="preserve">Ac primò, antequam ad fabricam venia-
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            mus, attentè conſiderandum eſt, qua ex parte hoſtis
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            majus inferre poſſit damnum, ac quomodo fieri poſ-
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            ſit, vt propugnaculum meliùs tueatur arcem ſeu ca-
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            ſtrum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s453" xml:space="preserve">Perpendendum eſt etiam, an velimus for-
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            mare propugnaculum cum cuniculo tranſuerſo (Gal-
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            li dicunt contzcminc,) vel puteis (fiunt autem hi in imo
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            propugnaculi vel cortinæ, ad aperiendos & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s454" xml:space="preserve">vanos
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            reddendos cuniculos vel furnos, qui ab hoſtibus
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            fiunt.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s455" xml:space="preserve">Hi autem cuniculi tranſuerſi vel putei antiqui-
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            tus non fiebant, niſi vbi arces aqua non circumda-
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            bantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s456" xml:space="preserve">hodie verò fiunt & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s457" xml:space="preserve">cum aqua & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s458" xml:space="preserve">abſque aqua,
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            propter furnos qui fiunt in cortina & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s459" xml:space="preserve">circa propu-
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            gnacula ſuper aquam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s460" xml:space="preserve">Certum autem eſt, dari non poſ-
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            ſe canonem generalem ſuper menſuris, quia conſtruun
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            tur majora vel minora ſecundùm ſitum, ac juxta ſum-
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            ptus quos in eis vel poſſumus vel volumus facere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s461" xml:space="preserve">Con
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            uenit autem ei qui animum appellit ad hanc ſcien-
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            tiam deſignandi rite propugnacula ſeu arces, conue-
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            nit, inquam, ei, vt ſecundùm canones in hoc opere ex-
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            plicatos, ſciat in charta deſcribere quoduis genus pro-
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            pugnaculi, vel etiam modulos eorum erigere (Galli
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            vocant modcſſc@) in iisq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s462" xml:space="preserve">exactè menſuras obſeruare, vt
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            cõmunicando cũ variis hominibusſuas delineationes,
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            audire poſſit varia eorũ judicia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s463" xml:space="preserve">Videat etiam quid pro
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            priè competat arcibus quæ in montibus extruuntur,
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            iis quæ in planitiebus, iis quæ alibi, Iam ſtatuamus de-
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            ſignandum nobis eſſe propugnaculum cum cunicu-
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            lo tranſuerſo, ea tamen lege vt eo poſſimus vti abſque
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            eo cuniculo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s464" xml:space="preserve">Erigatur autem hoc noſtrum propugna-
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            culum ſuper figura pentagona æ quilatera & </s>
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