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              ritates: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s325" xml:space="preserve">non putaui prætermittendum, quin primo quoque tempore de his rebus ea tibi ederem.</s>
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            <p style="it">
              <s xml:id="echoid-s327" xml:space="preserve">Pacatis rebus tranquillè urbs agebat: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s328" xml:space="preserve">Sed uirtus irrequieta Principis domi contineri non poterat ocioſa,
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              quin ad pacis ſtudia conuerſa, urbem magnificentia ædificiorum ornaret, lætareturq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s329" xml:space="preserve">quod marmoream,
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              ex lateritia stratam relinqueret. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s330" xml:space="preserve">ut merito Principis uoluntati quiſque contenderet, quamprimum egregiè ſa
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              tisfacere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s331" xml:space="preserve">unde Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s332" xml:space="preserve">incæptum iampridem opus, ac patri Auguſti promiſſum, filio tandem præſtet.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s333" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <p>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s334" xml:space="preserve">Ideo quod parenti tuo de eo fueram notus, ut eius uirtutis ſtudioſus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s335" xml:space="preserve">Cum autem concilium cœ-
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              leſtium in ſedibus immortalitatis eum dedicauiſſet, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s336" xml:space="preserve">Imperium parentis in tuam poteſtatem tranſtu-
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              liſſet, illud idem ſtudium meum in eius memoriam permanens, in te contulit fauorem.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s337" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <p style="it">
              <s xml:id="echoid-s338" xml:space="preserve">Siutrei, ita & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s339" xml:space="preserve">amicitiæ paternæ hæredes filij eſſe debent, æquum putat Vitruuius, ut Auguſtus non ingra
                <lb/>
                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.035-01" xlink:href="note-514.01.035-01a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
              tum habeat eius erga ſe ſtudium: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s340" xml:space="preserve">quod multo ante in patrem contulerat: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s341" xml:space="preserve">non ſolum propenſam animi uolunta
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              tem ſe habuiſſe erga Cæſarem: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s342" xml:space="preserve">Sed & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s343" xml:space="preserve">beneficijs deuinctum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s344" xml:space="preserve">ab Auguſto dignitatibus ornatum ſe dicit; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s345" xml:space="preserve">quo
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              fit, ut honeſtior, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s346" xml:space="preserve">iuſta magis cauſa extiterit dedicationis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s347" xml:space="preserve">inquit igitur.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s349" xml:space="preserve">Itaque cum M. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s350" xml:space="preserve">Aurelio, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s351" xml:space="preserve">Publio Minidio, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s352" xml:space="preserve">Gn. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s353" xml:space="preserve">Cornelio ad apparationem baliſtarum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s354" xml:space="preserve">ſcor
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              pionum, reliquorumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s355" xml:space="preserve">tormentorum refectionem fui præſto, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s356" xml:space="preserve">cum eis commoda accepi: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s357" xml:space="preserve">quæ cum
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              primo mihi tribuiſti: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s358" xml:space="preserve">recognitionem per ſororis commendationem ſeruaſti.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s359" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <p style="it">
              <s xml:id="echoid-s360" xml:space="preserve">Militaſſe Vitruuium uel exercitum ſequutum fuiſſe, ex eo quoque loco dignoſcitur, ubiin octauo libro lo-
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              quitur de proprietatibus nonnullorum locorum & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s361" xml:space="preserve">fontium Cap. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s362" xml:space="preserve">I I I I. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s363" xml:space="preserve">cum dicit.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s364" xml:space="preserve">#C. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s365" xml:space="preserve">Iulius Maſsiniſſae fi-
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              lius, cuius erant totius oppidi agrorum poſſeſsiones cum patre Cæſare militauit.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s366" xml:space="preserve">#Is hoſpitio meo eſt
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              uſus, ita quotidianum conuictu, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s367" xml:space="preserve">reliqua.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s368" xml:space="preserve">Præfuit apparatui bellico, refectioniq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s369" xml:space="preserve">tormentorum: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s370" xml:space="preserve">quod qui-
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.035-02" xlink:href="note-514.01.035-02a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
              dem quanti faciendum erat, ex. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s371" xml:space="preserve">X. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s372" xml:space="preserve">libro. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s373" xml:space="preserve">facile dignoſcitur: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s374" xml:space="preserve">eoq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s375" xml:space="preserve">loci differo explicare, quid baliſtæ, quid
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              ſint ſcorpiones: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s376" xml:space="preserve">ne ordo ſcientiæ præuertatur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s377" xml:space="preserve">In aliquibus codicibus legitur, P. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s378" xml:space="preserve">Numidico, uel Numidio,
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              in aliquibus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s379" xml:space="preserve">L. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s380" xml:space="preserve">Muſſidio, memini me in quodam numiſmate de L. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s381" xml:space="preserve">Muſſidio legiſſe ipſum monetæ cudendæ præ
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              fuiſſe. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s382" xml:space="preserve">Quis ſit hic modo ſcire parum refert.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s384" xml:space="preserve">Cum ergo co beneſicio eſſem obligatus, ut ad exitum uitæ non haberem inopiæ timorem: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s385" xml:space="preserve">hæc tibi
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              ſcribere cæpi; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s386" xml:space="preserve">quod animaduerti multa te ædificauiſſe, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s387" xml:space="preserve">nunc ædificare. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s388" xml:space="preserve">reliquoq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s389" xml:space="preserve">tempore, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s390" xml:space="preserve">pu-
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              blicorum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s391" xml:space="preserve">priuatorum ædificiorum pro amplitudine rerum geſtarum; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s392" xml:space="preserve">ut poſteris memoriæ trade-
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              rentur, curam habiturum, conſcripſi præſcriptiones terminatas, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s393" xml:space="preserve">eas attendens, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s394" xml:space="preserve">antefacta, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s395" xml:space="preserve">fu
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              tura qualia ſint opera, per te nota poſſes habere: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s396" xml:space="preserve">nanque his uoluminibus aperui omnes diſciplinæ
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              rationes.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s398" xml:space="preserve">Octauia Auguſti ſoror Vitruuium commendauerat Auguſto fratri: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s399" xml:space="preserve">ea commendatione Auguſtus recogno-
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              uit Vitruuij studium erga patrem ſuum, commoda, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s400" xml:space="preserve">honores illi propterea contulit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s401" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s402" xml:space="preserve">beneficijs eum de-
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              uinxit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s403" xml:space="preserve">unde cum non timeret ſenij paupertatem, tantam nactus occaſionem ſcripſit de Architectura, præce-
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              ptaq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s404" xml:space="preserve">diſperſa & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s405" xml:space="preserve">fuſa tanquam membra in corpus unum redegit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s406" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s407" xml:space="preserve">principi ædificationi dedito dedicauit:
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s408" xml:space="preserve">unde, ut dixi, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s409" xml:space="preserve">gratitudinem, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s410" xml:space="preserve">iudicium mirum oſtendit.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s412" xml:space="preserve">Conſcripſi præcriptiones terminatas, ut eas attendens, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s413" xml:space="preserve">antefacta, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s414" xml:space="preserve">futura qualia ſint opera, per
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              te nota poſſes habere.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s416" xml:space="preserve">Vtinam temporib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s417" xml:space="preserve">noſtris id obſeruarent ædificantes: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s418" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s419" xml:space="preserve">multo ante animo prouiderent qualia futura,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s420" xml:space="preserve">quos effectus habitura eſſent opera. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s421" xml:space="preserve">Siquidem inditium hoc eſſet præhabitæartis: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s422" xml:space="preserve">nec res ullas temerè ag
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              grederentur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s423" xml:space="preserve">Qui uero negant præuideri poſſe animo. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s424" xml:space="preserve">quicquid inde opere futurum eſt, neſciunt proſecto quid
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              ars, quid uſus, quid diligentia præſtare poſſit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s425" xml:space="preserve">Sed nos adreliqua πpoλoyóμεva.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s426" xml:space="preserve">quæ quoniam Vitruuianis
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              uerbis continentur; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s427" xml:space="preserve">ea Dei Opt. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s428" xml:space="preserve">Max. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s429" xml:space="preserve">implorato auxilio aggrediemur.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s431" xml:space="preserve">Architectura eſt ſcientia plurib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s432" xml:space="preserve">diſciplinis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s433" xml:space="preserve">uarijs eruditionib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s434" xml:space="preserve">ornata: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s435" xml:space="preserve">cuius iuditio probantur
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              omnia, quæab cæteris artib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s436" xml:space="preserve">perficiuntur opera. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s437" xml:space="preserve">Architecturæ nomen a principatu deductum eſt, quem
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              tenet inter artes omnes illa notitia: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s438" xml:space="preserve">cui nomen huiuſmodi impoſitum eſt. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s439" xml:space="preserve">Plato enim Architectum præeſſe in-
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              quit his, qui artib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s440" xml:space="preserve">utuntur: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s441" xml:space="preserve">unde nec faber eſt, nec cerdo, nec ædificator, nec ſepar atim artifex ullus: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s442" xml:space="preserve">ſed
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              caput, præſes, iudex, dirctor artificiorum, artificumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s443" xml:space="preserve">omnium. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s444" xml:space="preserve">Siquidem non ante Architecti nomen ſibi
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              uendicare potuit, quam multa, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s445" xml:space="preserve">uaria eruditione, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s446" xml:space="preserve">doctrina imbutus fuerit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s447" xml:space="preserve">multarum artium ſecreta
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              dignouerit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s448" xml:space="preserve">ſubtiles diuerſarum notitiarum rationes perpenderit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s449" xml:space="preserve">Cum igitur præſit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s450" xml:space="preserve">nil aliud agit, quam do
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              cere, demoſtrare, diſtribuere, deſcribere, præcipere, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s451" xml:space="preserve">iudicare, quibus muneribus elucet maximè Ar-
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              chitecturæ dignitas, ſapientiæ proxima inter artes, tanquàm heros præcipua quædam, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s452" xml:space="preserve">inſignis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s453" xml:space="preserve">Sola
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.035-05" xlink:href="note-514.01.035-05a" xml:space="preserve">50</note>
              enim artefactorum rationes inquirit: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s454" xml:space="preserve">ſola abſtruſas, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s455" xml:space="preserve">abſconditas res inueſtigat: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s456" xml:space="preserve">ſola certiorum ſcientia
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              rum particeps eſt Arithmeticæ ſcilicet, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s457" xml:space="preserve">Geometriæ ſine quibus uilis eſt ars omnis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s458" xml:space="preserve">abſque dignita-
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              te. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s459" xml:space="preserve">inquit igitur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s460" xml:space="preserve">Architectura eſt ſcientia. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s461" xml:space="preserve"># Et ſcientiæ nomine notitiam, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s462" xml:space="preserve">præceptorum multorum
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              quandam quaſi comprchenſionem mtelligit ad certum finem tendentium. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s463" xml:space="preserve">Scientia ergo generis locum tenet
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              in hac diffinitione: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s464" xml:space="preserve">quare adhuc communis eſt ratio Architecturæ: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s465" xml:space="preserve">cum igitur diffinitio id præſtare debeat; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s466" xml:space="preserve">ut
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              uim, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s467" xml:space="preserve">naturam rei, de qua agitur, explicet: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s468" xml:space="preserve">adduntur præter genus diſcrimina quædam: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s469" xml:space="preserve">quæ planius rem
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              declarant, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s470" xml:space="preserve">certius eam præfiniunt, ſecernuntq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s471" xml:space="preserve">ab alijs rebus.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s472" xml:space="preserve">ea Junt huiuſmodi. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s473" xml:space="preserve"># Plurib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s474" xml:space="preserve">diſciplinis,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s475" xml:space="preserve">uarijs eruditionib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s476" xml:space="preserve">ornata. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s477" xml:space="preserve"># Nam his conditionib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s478" xml:space="preserve">ſeiungitur Architectura ab ijs notitijs: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s479" xml:space="preserve">quæſepara
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              tim aſenſibus profectæ, experientia quadam comparantur; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s480" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s481" xml:space="preserve">uſu, manuumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s482" xml:space="preserve">tractatione ex uiſu perficiun-
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              tur: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">Sed & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s484" xml:space="preserve">adhuc fuſior, quam par eſt, Architecturæ diffinitio: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">nam & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">Oratoris, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">Medici, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s488" xml:space="preserve">aliæ mul-
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.035-06" xlink:href="note-514.01.035-06a" xml:space="preserve">60</note>
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