Monantheuil, Henri de, Aristotelis Mechanica, 1599

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              <s id="id.000200">
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              caretur. </s>
              <s id="id.000201">Murum per inęquales ductum colles, pleraque alta
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              & difficilia aditu, ſummiſſa quædam, & quæ planis vallibus
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              adiri poſſent, vt cuique aptum viſum eſt loco, ita omni ge­
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              nere tormento rum inſtruxit. </s>
              <s id="id.000202">Acradinæ murum, qui, vt ante
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              dictum eſt, mari alluitur ex quinqueremibus Marcellus
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              oppugnabat. </s>
              <s id="id.000203">ex cæteris nauibus ſagittarij, funditoreſque,
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              & velites etiam quorum telum inhabile ad remittendum
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              imperitis eſt: vix quenquam ſine vulnere conſiſtere in muro
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              patiebantur. </s>
              <s id="id.000204">Hi, quia ſpatio miſſilibus opus eſt: procul mu­
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              ro
                <expan abbr="tenebãt">tenebant</expan>
              naues. </s>
              <s id="id.000205">Iunctæ aliæ binæ ad quinqueremes dem­
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              ptis interioribus remis, vt latus lateri appropinquaretur:
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              cum exteriore ordine remorum velut naues agerentur: tur­
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              res contabulatas, machinamentá que alia quatiendis muris
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              portabant. </s>
              <s id="id.000206">Aduerſus hunc naualem apparatum Archime­
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              des variæ magnitudinis tormenta in muris diſpoſuit. </s>
              <s id="id.000207">In eas
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              quæ procul erant, naues ſaxa ingenti pondere emittebat:
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              propiores leuioribus, eóque magis crebris petebat telis. </s>
              <s id="id.000208">Po­
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              ſtremò vt ſui vulnere intacti tela in hoſtem ingererent: mu­
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              rum ab imo ſummum crebris cubitalibus ferè caueis ape­
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              ruit. </s>
              <s id="id.000209">per quæ caua pars ſagittis: pars ſcorpionibus modicis
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              ex occulto petebant hoſtem. </s>
              <s id="id.000210">Quæ propius
                <expan abbr="quidẽ">quidem</expan>
              ſubibant
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              naues, quo interiores ictibus
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              eſſent: in eas tol­
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              lendas deſuper murum eminentem ferrea manus firmæ ca­
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              thenæ illigata, cum iniecta proræ eſſet, grauique libramen­
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              to plumbi recelleret ad ſolum:
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              prora, nauim in pup­
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              pim ſtatuebat. </s>
              <s id="id.000211">Dein remiſſa ſubitò, velut ex muro caden­
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              tem nauim cum ingenti trepidatione nautarum ita vndæ
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              affligebant: vt etiamſi recta recideret aliquantum aquæ ac­
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              ciperet. </s>
              <s id="id.000212">Ita maritima oppugnatio eſt eluſa, omniſque vis eſt
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              auerſa, vt totis viribus terra aggrederentur. </s>
              <s id="id.000213">Sed ea quoque
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              pars eodem omni apparatu tormentorum inſtructa erat,
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              Hieronis impenſis, curaque per multos annos Archimedis
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              vnica arte. </s>
              <s id="id.000214">Ita conſilio habito, cum omnis conatus ludibrio
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              eſſet: abſiſtere oppugnatione atque obſidendo tantum ar­
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              cere terra marique commeatibus hoſtem placuit. </s>
              <s id="id.000215">Hæc Ti­
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              tus Liuius lib.4.decad.3. </s>
              <s id="id.000216">Vilium igitur, ſordidorum que ho­
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              minum ne dixerimus ea eſſe inſtrumenta, quæ vel à dijs, vel </s>
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