Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485
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              non duraſſe / niſi quod cum natura rerum contenderint. </s>
              <s id="N401953">Eum qui
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              ponte nauibus producto obequitare inſtituerat mare quis non irri
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              deat: aut potius
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              oderit inſaniam? </s>
              <s id="N40195E">Portum Claudii ſub
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              hoſtia: et apud Teracinam portum Adriani opera omni exparte
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              alioquin æterna / tamen uidemus iam tum pridem obſtruſis hare
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              na faucibus & repleto ſinu penitus defeciſſe mare
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              intermiſ
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              ſa illuctatione aſſidua laceſſente & in dies peruincente. </s>
              <s id="N40196F">Quid
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              putas futurum ubi aut impetentium aquarum uim: aut ruentium
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              rupium molem omnino arcere propellereque inſtitueris? </s>
              <s id="N40197A">Quæ
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              ita ſint aduertiſſe oportet ne quid eiuſmodi aggrediamur quod
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              ipſum non recte cum rerum natura conueniat. </s>
              <s id="N401985">Proxime
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              eſt ne quid ad te recipias in quo perficiundo ipſe tibi deficias re
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                perfecta</expan>
              . </s>
              <s id="N401994">Tarquinum regem Romanorum / ni ſuperi dii amplitu
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              dini urbis fauiſſent / ni creſcente imperio ſatis opum ad tantam in
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              cohatam magnificentiam ſuppeditaſſent / quis non uituperaſſet /
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              quod templi fundamentis iaciundis
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              futuri operis impenſam
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              profudiſſet? </s>
              <s id="N4019A3">Accedit quod non modo quid queas / uerum & quid
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              deceat non in poſtremis conſiderandum eſt. </s>
              <s id="N4019A8">Rhodopen Thraci
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              am meretricem illam celebrem & ſuorum temporum memoriam
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              non laudo: Quæ ſibi ſepulchrum incredibili
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              condi iuſſit:
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              Nam ea quidem & ſi meretricio quæſtu regias adepta eſſet opes
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              regio tamen digna ſepulchro
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              fuit. </s>
              <s id="N4019BB">At reginam Cariæ ar
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              temiſiam contra non uitupero / quæ
                <expan abbr="amãtiſſimo">amantiſſimo</expan>
              et digniſſimo ui
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              ro ſepulchrum condidit magnificentiſſimum:
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              quoque in his
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              modeſtiam probem. </s>
              <s id="N4019CC">Mecenatem increpabat Horatius quod ædifi
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              cando inſaniret. </s>
              <s id="N4019D1">Mihi uero apud Cornelium tacitum probatur is
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              qui othoni ſepulchrum poſuit modicum / ſed manſurum. </s>
              <s id="N4019D6">Quod
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              & ſi in priuatis monumentis modeſtiam / in publicis magnificen
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              tiam exigunt publica etiam interdum priuatorum modeſtia col
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              laudantur. </s>
              <s id="N4019DF">Pompeii theatrum
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              opis
                <expan abbr="magnitudinẽ">magnitudinem</expan>
              et di
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              gnitatem laudibus et admiratione proſequimur. </s>
              <s id="N4019EC">Dignum opus
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              et Pompeio et uictrice Roma. </s>
              <s id="N4019F2">Sed Neronis ædificandi inſaniam
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              et uaſtiſſimorum operum adſoluendorum furorem non omnes pro
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              bant: Tum et eum qui tam multis hominum milibus
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              apud </s>
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