Alberti, Leone Battista, De re aedificatoria, 1485
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              madent
                <expan abbr="anteq̃">antequam</expan>
              ſicceſcant. </s>
              <s id="N402471">Nam ſemel madida atque rurſus exſicca
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              ta dureſcit teſta adeo ut ferri aciem delimet atque conſumat. </s>
              <s id="N402476">Sed
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              nos commodius proxime ductam & adhuc urentem radimus. </s>
              <s id="N40247B">At
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              qui laterum tria apud ueteres fuerunt genera: Vnum longum ſex
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              qui pede latum pedem: Alterum palmos quinque quoque uerſus: ter
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              tium palmos non plus quatuor. </s>
              <s id="N402484">Videmus in ædificiis teſtas præ
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              ſertim ad arcus et nexuras pedes quaſque uerſus latas binos. </s>
              <s id="N40248B">His
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              non æquæ uſos ueteres publicis atque priuatis operibus
                <expan abbr="recitãt">recitant</expan>
              : ſed
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              maioribus publica / minoribus priuata ſtruxiſſe ædificia. </s>
              <s id="N402496">De his
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              quoque annotaui cum alibi in ueterum monumentis: tum uia appia
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              alia atque alia extare maiorum & minorum laterum genera: quibus
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              uarie uterentur: ut non modo quicquid ad utilitatem / uerum
                <expan abbr="etiã">etiam</expan>
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              quicquid ad gratiam aptum et condecens uenerit in mentem: id
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              ſedulo uoluiſſe perficere arbitror: Vt cætera omittam lateres ui
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              di longos digitos non plus ſex / craſſos unum / latos tris: Sed his
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              potiſſimum pauimenta ſpicatim inſternebant. </s>
              <s id="N4024AB">Præcæteris mihi
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              probantur trianguli / quos faciebant hunc in modum: Laterem e
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              nim quaque uerſus pedali amplitudinem ducebant craſſum
                <expan abbr="digitũ">digitum</expan>
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              et ſemis hunc dum uirebat duabus lineis diametralibus ab
                <expan abbr="ãgulo">angulo</expan>
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              ad oppoſitum angulum ſignabant linea profunda / quæ uſque dimi
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              diam lateris craſſitudinem ſcinderet. </s>
              <s id="N4024C0">Hinc igitur quatuor habe
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              bantur trianguli æquales: Lateres has præſtabant commoditates:
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              Nam minus capiebant cretæ / coaptabantur in fornace / eximeban
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              tur / deferebantur in opus habilius: puta qui una manu quatuor ha
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              berentur: Hos faber leui ictu inter abſtruendum alterum ab alte
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              ro diuidebat: Hiſque per frontes parietum ordines inducebat late
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              re pedali extrinſecus ut pateret: Angulo uero introrſus obiecto /
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              Ex quo impenſa quidem minor / opus gratius / ſtructura firmior
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              reddebatur: Nam cum toto pariete nulli non integri adeſſe late
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              res apparerent: tum anguli densatim infarturis parietum illigati
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              opus firmiſſimum reddebant. </s>
              <s id="N4024D7">Ductos lateres ne illico in
                <expan abbr="fornacẽ">fornacem</expan>
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              imponas iubent / ni perſicci ſint: et non ante biennium ſiccos red
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              di: & in umbra commodius ſiccari
                <expan abbr="">quam</expan>
              in ſole aſſerunt: Sed de his
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              quoque hactenus / ni forte addas / quod annotauere terram ad huius </s>
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