Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem ad Caesarem Augustum, omnibus omnium editionibus longè emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis

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            Græcis volumina plura ædita, ab noſtris oppido quàm pauca. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13677" xml:space="preserve">Fuſsitius
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            enim mirum de his rebus primus inſtituit ædere volumen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13678" xml:space="preserve">Item Teren-
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            tius Varro de nouem diſciplinis, vnum de Architectura. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13679" xml:space="preserve">Pub. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13680" xml:space="preserve">Septimius
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            duo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13681" xml:space="preserve">Amplius verò in id genus ſcripturæ adhuc nemo incubuiſſe videtur,
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            cum fuiſſent & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13682" xml:space="preserve">antiqui ciues magni Architecti, qui potuiſſent non mi-
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            nus eleganter ſcripta comparare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13683" xml:space="preserve">Nanque Athenis Antiſtates, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13684" xml:space="preserve">Cal-
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            leſchros, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13685" xml:space="preserve">Antimachides, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13686" xml:space="preserve">Porinos Architecti, Piſiſtrato ædem Ioui
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            Olympio facienti, fundamenta conſtituerunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13687" xml:space="preserve">Poſt mortem autem eius,
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            propter interpellationem Reip, incepta reliquerunt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13688" xml:space="preserve">Itaque circiter annis
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            ducentis pòſt, Antiochus rex, cum in id opus impenſam eſſet pollicitus,
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            cellæ magnitudinem, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13689" xml:space="preserve">columnarum circa dipteron collocationem, epi-
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            ſtyliorum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13690" xml:space="preserve">cæterorum ornamentorum ad ſymmetriarum diſtributio-
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            nem, magna ſolertia ſcientiaq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13691" xml:space="preserve">ſumma, ciuis Romanus Coſſutius nobili-
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            ter eſt Architectatus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13692" xml:space="preserve">Id autem opus non modo vulgo, ſed etiam in pau-
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            cis à magnificentia nominatur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13693" xml:space="preserve">Nam quatuor locis ſunt ædium ſacra-
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            rum marmoreis operibus ornatæ diſpoſitiones, è quibus propriæ de his
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            nominationes clariſsima fama nominantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13694" xml:space="preserve">Quorum excellentiæ, pru-
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            dentesq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13695" xml:space="preserve">cogitationum apparatus, ſuſpectus habent in deorum ſeſsimo-
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            nio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13696" xml:space="preserve">Primumq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13697" xml:space="preserve">ædes Epheſi Dianæ Ionico genere ab Cteſiphonte Gno-
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            ſio, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13698" xml:space="preserve">filio eius Metagene eſt inſtituta, quam poſtea Demetrius ipſius
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            Dianæ ſeruus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13699" xml:space="preserve">Peonius Epheſius dicuntur perfeciſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13700" xml:space="preserve">Mileti Apollini
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            item Ionicis ſymmetriis idem Peonius Daphnisq́; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13701" xml:space="preserve">Mileſius inſtituerunt.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s13702" xml:space="preserve">Eleuſinæ Cereris & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13703" xml:space="preserve">Proſerpinæ cellam, immani magnitudine, Ictinus
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            Dorico more, ſine exterioribus columnis ad laxamentum vſus ſacrificio-
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            rum pertexit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13704" xml:space="preserve">Eam autem poſtea, cum Demetrius Phalereus Athenis
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            rerum potiretur, Philon ante templum in fronte columnis conſtitutis
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            proſtylon fecit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13705" xml:space="preserve">Ita aucto veſtibulo laxamentum initiantibus, operiq́; </s>
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            ſummam adiecit autoritatem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13707" xml:space="preserve">In Aſty verò Iouem Olympium amplo
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            modulorum comparatu, Corinthiis ſymmetriis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13708" xml:space="preserve">proportionibus (vti
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            ſuprà ſcriptum eſt) architectandum Coſſutius ſuſcepiſſe memoratur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13709" xml:space="preserve">Cu-
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            ius commentarium nullum eſt inuentum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13710" xml:space="preserve">nec tamen à Coſſutio ſolum
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            de his rebus ſcripta ſunt deſideranda, ſed etiam à C.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13711" xml:space="preserve">Mutio, qui magna
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            ſcientia confiſus ædes Honoris & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13712" xml:space="preserve">Virtutis Marianæ cellæ, columnarumq́; </s>
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13714" xml:space="preserve">epiſtyliorum ſymmetrias legitimis artis inſtitutis perfecit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13715" xml:space="preserve">Id verò ſi
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            marmoreum fuiſſet, vt haberet, quemadmodum ab arte ſubtilitatem, ſic
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            à magnificentia & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13716" xml:space="preserve">impenſis autoritatem, in primis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13717" xml:space="preserve">ſummis operibus
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            nominaretur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13718" xml:space="preserve">Cum ergo & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13719" xml:space="preserve">antiqui noſtri inueniantur non minus quàm
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            Græci fuiſſe magni Architecti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13720" xml:space="preserve">noſtræ memoriæ ſatis multi, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13721" xml:space="preserve">ex his
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            pauci præcepta edidiſſent, non putaui ſilendum, ſed diſpoſite ſingulis vo-
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            luminibus de ſingulis exponendum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13722" xml:space="preserve">Itaq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13723" xml:space="preserve">quoniam ſexto volumine pri-
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            uatorum ædificiorum rationes perſcripſi, in hoc qui ſeptimum tenet </s>
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