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            Chionides, Ariſtophanes, maximè etiam cum his Alexis, qui Athenien-
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            ſes ait ideo oportere laudari, quòd omnium Græcorum leges cogunt pa-
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            rentes ali à liberis, Athenienſium non omnes, niſi eos qui liberos artibus
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            erudiſſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11924" xml:space="preserve">Omnia enim munera fortunæ cum dantur, ab ea facillime
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            adimuntur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11925" xml:space="preserve">diſciplinæ verò coniunctæ cum animis, nullo tempore defi-
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            ciunt, ſed permanent ſtabiliter ad ſummum exitum vitæ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11926" xml:space="preserve">Itaque ego ma-
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            ximas infinitasq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11927" xml:space="preserve">parentibus ago atque habeo gratias, quod Athenien-
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            ſium legem probantes me arte erudiendum curauerunt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11928" xml:space="preserve">ea, quæ non
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            poteſt eſſe probata ſine literatura, encyclioq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11929" xml:space="preserve">doctrinarum omnium diſci-
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            plina. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11930" xml:space="preserve">Cum ergo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11931" xml:space="preserve">parentum cura, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11932" xml:space="preserve">præceptorum doctrinis auctas ha-
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            berem copias diſciplinarum, philologis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11933" xml:space="preserve">philotechnis rebus, commenta-
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            riorumq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11934" xml:space="preserve">ſcripturis me delectans, eas poſſeſsiones animo paraui, è quibus
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            hæc eſt ſructuum ſumma, nullam plus habendi neceſsitatem, eamq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11935" xml:space="preserve">eſſe
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            proprietatem diuitiarum maxime, nihil deſiderare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11936" xml:space="preserve">Sed forte nonnulli
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            hæc leuia iudicantes, putant eos eſſe tantum ſapientes, qui pecunia ſunt
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            copioſi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11937" xml:space="preserve">Itaque plerique ad id propoſitum contendentes, audacia adhibita
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            cum diuitiis etiam notitiam ſunt conſecuti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11938" xml:space="preserve">Ego autem Cæſar, non ad
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            pecuniam parandam ex arte, dedi ſtudium, ſed potius tenuitatem cum
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            bona fama, quàm abundantiam cum infamia ſequendam probaui, ideo
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            noticies parum eſt adſecuta, ſed tamen his voluminibus æditis (vt ſpero)
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            poſteris etiam ero notus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11939" xml:space="preserve">Neque eſt mirandum, quid ita pluribus ſim
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            ignotus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11940" xml:space="preserve">Cæteri Architecti rogant & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11941" xml:space="preserve">ambiunt, vt architectentur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11942" xml:space="preserve">mihi
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            autem à præceptoribus eſt traditum, rogatum, non rogantem, oportere
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            ſuſcipere curam, quod ingenuus color mouetur pudore, petendo rem
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            ſuſpicioſam: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11943" xml:space="preserve">nam beneficium dantes, non accipientes, ambiuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11944" xml:space="preserve">Quid
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            enim putemus ſuſpicari, qui rogetur de patrimonio ſumptus ſaciendos
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            committere gratiæ petentis, niſi quod prædæ compendiiq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11945" xml:space="preserve">eius cauſa iu-
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            dicet faciendum? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11946" xml:space="preserve">Itaque maiores primum à genere probatis opera trade-
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            bant Architectis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11947" xml:space="preserve">deinde quærebant ſi honeſte eſſent educati, ingenuo
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            pudori, non audaciæ proteruitatis committendum iudicantes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11948" xml:space="preserve">Ipſi au-
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            tem artifices non erudiebant niſi ſuos liberos, aut cognatos, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11949" xml:space="preserve">cos viros
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            bonos inſtituebant, quibus tantarum rerum fidei, pecuniæ ſine dubita-
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            tione permitterentur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11950" xml:space="preserve">Cum autem animaduerto ab indoctis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11951" xml:space="preserve">imperi-
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            tis tantæ diſciplinæ magnitudinem iactari, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11952" xml:space="preserve">ab his, qui non modo Ar-
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            chitecturæ, ſed omnino ne fabricæ quidem notitiam habent, non poſſum
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            non laudare patresſamilias eos, qui literaturæ fiducia confirmati, per ſe
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            ædificantes ita iudicant, ſi imperitis ſit committendum, ipſos potius di-
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            gniores eſſe ad ſuã voluntatem, quàm ad alienam pecunię cõſumere ſum-
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            mam. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11953" xml:space="preserve">Itaq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11954" xml:space="preserve">nemo artem vllam aliam conatur domi facere, vti ſutrinam,
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            vel fullonicam, aut ex cæteris, quę ſunt faciliores, niſi Architecturam, ideo
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            quod qui profitentur non arte vera, ſed falſo nominantur Architecti.</s>
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