Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, 1567

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            <head xml:id="echoid-head48" xml:space="preserve">M. VITRVVII
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            ARCHITECTVRA
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            LIBER SECVNDVS.
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            Proœmium.</head>
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                <emph style="sc">DInocrates</emph>
              Architectus,cogitationibus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4163" xml:space="preserve">ſolertia fretus, cum Alexan-
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              der rerum potiretur, profectus eſt a Macedonia ad exercitum, regiæ cu-
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              pidus commendationis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4164" xml:space="preserve">Is è patria a propinquis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4165" xml:space="preserve">amicis tulit ad primos
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              ordines, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4166" xml:space="preserve">purpuratos literas, ut aditus haberet faciliores, ab eisq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4167" xml:space="preserve">acce-
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              ptus humanè,petijt, uti quàm primum ad Alexandrum perduceretur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4168" xml:space="preserve">Cum
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              polliciti eſſent, tardiores fuerunt, idoneum tempus expectantes. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4169" xml:space="preserve">Itaque
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              Dinocrates ab ijs ſe exiſtimans illudi, ab ſe petijt præſidium. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4170" xml:space="preserve">Fuerat enim
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.078-02" xlink:href="note-514.01.078-02a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
              ampliſsima ſtatura, facie grata, forma,dignitateq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4171" xml:space="preserve">ſumma. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4172" xml:space="preserve">His igitur na-
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              turæ muneribus confiſus, ueſtimenta poſuit in hoſpitio, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4173" xml:space="preserve">oleo corpus
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              perunxit, caputq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4174" xml:space="preserve">coronauit populea fronde, lęuum humerum pelle Ieoni-
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              na texit, dextraq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4175" xml:space="preserve">clauam tenens inceſsit contra tribunal regis ius dicentis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4176" xml:space="preserve">Nouitas populum cum
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              auertiſſet,conſpexit eum Alexander,& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4177" xml:space="preserve">admirans, iuſsit ei locum dari ut accederet, interrogauitq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4178" xml:space="preserve">quis
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              eſſet. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4179" xml:space="preserve">At ille, Dinocrates, inquit, Architectus Macedo, qui ad te cogitationes & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4180" xml:space="preserve">formas affero dignas
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              tua claritate. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4181" xml:space="preserve">Nanque Athon montem formaui in ſtatuæ uirilis figuram,cuius manu laeua deſignaui ci-
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              uitatis ampliſsimæ mœnia, dextra pateram, quæ exciperet omnium fluminum, quæ ſunt in eo mon-
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              te, aquam, ut inde in mare profunderetur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4182" xml:space="preserve">Delectans Alexander ratione formæ ſtatim quæſiuit, ſi
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              eſſent agri circa, qui poſſent frumentaria ratione eam ciuitatem tueri. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4183" xml:space="preserve">Cum inueniſſet non poſſe niſi
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.078-03" xlink:href="note-514.01.078-03a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
              tranſmarinis ſubuectionibus: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4184" xml:space="preserve">Dinocrates(inquit) attendo egregiam formæ compoſitionem,& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4185" xml:space="preserve">ea de-
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              lector: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4186" xml:space="preserve">ſed animaduerto, ſi quis deduxerit eò loci coloniam, fore ut iudi cium eius uituperetur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4187" xml:space="preserve">Vt
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              enim natus infans ſine nutricis lacte non poteſt ali,neque ad uitæ creſcentis gradus perduci, ſic ciuitas
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              ſine agris, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4188" xml:space="preserve">eorum fructibus in mœnibus affluentibus non poteſt creſcere, nec ſine abundantia cibi
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              frequentiam habere, populumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4189" xml:space="preserve">ſine copia tueri. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4190" xml:space="preserve">Itaque quemadmodum formationem puto proban-
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              dam, ſic iudico locum improbandum; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4191" xml:space="preserve">teq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4192" xml:space="preserve">uolo eſſe mecum, quod tua opera ſum uſurus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4193" xml:space="preserve">Ex eo Di-
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              nocrates ab rege non diſceſsit, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4194" xml:space="preserve">in Aegyptum eſt cum proſecutus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4195" xml:space="preserve">Ibi Alexander cum animaduer-
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              tiſſet portum naturalirer tutum, emporium egregium, campos circa totam Aegyptum frumentarios,
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              immanis fluminis Nili magnas utilitates, iuſsit eum ſuo nomine ciuitatem Alexandriam conſtituere.
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4196" xml:space="preserve">Itaque Dinocrates a facie, dignitateq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4197" xml:space="preserve">corporis, commendatusad eam nobilitatem peruenit</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4198" xml:space="preserve">Cum de locorum electione multa in ſuperiori libro tractata uiderimus, cumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4199" xml:space="preserve">vrbem mœnibus circundare
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.078-04" xlink:href="note-514.01.078-04a" xml:space="preserve">40</note>
              docuiſſet Vitru. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4200" xml:space="preserve">deq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4201" xml:space="preserve">propugnaculis, munitionibus, uiarumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4202" xml:space="preserve">directionibus abunde diſſeruerit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4203" xml:space="preserve">conſequens
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              eſt priuſquam ad alia progrediatur, ut de ea, qua in ædificando, materia utimur, ſermonem faciat. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4204" xml:space="preserve">primum
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              quia res postulat, ut poſtquam de forma in uniuerſum tradita præcepta ſunt, de materia ſtatim loquatur, in
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              quam forma inducitur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4205" xml:space="preserve">Deinde quia facilis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4206" xml:space="preserve">expedita eſt ea ratio, a qua cum ſe explicare ſtatim deberet,
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              ne reliquis moram faceret,peropportune de nateria orationem inſtituit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4207" xml:space="preserve">Oſtẽditq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4208" xml:space="preserve">quid Architecto eſſet opus,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4209" xml:space="preserve">qua ratione id totum in structura poneretur, nam non est ſatis copioſam & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4210" xml:space="preserve">electam materiem habere,ſed
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              illud maxime dignoſcendum est, qua ratione in opus deducatur, ut domus bene, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4211" xml:space="preserve">ratione ædificata,non ma-
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              le materiata, ac ruinoſa ſit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4212" xml:space="preserve">Agit igitur in ſecundo libro de toto hoc genere, quod ad materiam ſpectat. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4213" xml:space="preserve">De
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              lateribus, de arena, de calce, de puluere Puteo Lano, de lapidicinis, de generibus structureæ, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4214" xml:space="preserve">de earum
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.078-05" xlink:href="note-514.01.078-05a" xml:space="preserve">50</note>
              qualitatibus, modis, ac locis, de materie cædenda, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4215" xml:space="preserve">huiuſmodi rebus, quas neceſſario in ædificando habe-
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              re debemus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4216" xml:space="preserve">Sed ante quam ad hæc deueniat, multa de priſcorum hominum uita, deq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4217" xml:space="preserve">initijs humanitatis, & </s>
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              ædificiorum primordijs ediſſerit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4219" xml:space="preserve">mox rerum principia, cuiuſmodi ab antiquis poſita ſunt, breuiter percurrit.
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4220" xml:space="preserve">Cæterum ſubtiliter admodum, ac ingenioſe proœmium huic libro appinxit, nam cum maxime attendamus ad
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              ea, quæ ſtatim obuia nobis,& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4221" xml:space="preserve">ab initio proponuntur, cumq́ue uellet author maxime nos aduertere ad rem ual-
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              de neceſſariam, buiuſmodi proœmio uſus est,ut commodo uteretur exemplo. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4222" xml:space="preserve">Nam præter cætera, illud in pri-
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              mis obſeruandum eſt,ut peropportunis locis urbes condantur, quia non natura ſolum & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4223" xml:space="preserve">deſcriptione, ædifi-
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              ciorumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4224" xml:space="preserve">pulchritudine vrbes nobiles extruendæ ſunt,ſed ſitu,& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4225" xml:space="preserve">locorum commoditate inſignes,ubiuictus,et
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              rerum copia ſit expedita; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4226" xml:space="preserve">inhabitabiles enim, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4227" xml:space="preserve">deſertas urbes facit inopia. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4228" xml:space="preserve">contra uero celebres, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4229" xml:space="preserve">fre-
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              quentes reddit copia, quæ ſoli ubertate, cœli clementia, fluuiorum commoditate, portuum ſecuritate auge-
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              riſolet, quod ſi naturæ addatur industria, ibi nobiles mercatus, emporia, nundinæq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4230" xml:space="preserve">celebrantur. </s>
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