Heron Alexandrinus, Di Herone Alessandrino De gli automati : ouero machine semoventi, libri due, 1589

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            Sotto al fondo à ciaſcun poſto hauea d’orò
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            Cercbi, acciò cbe da ſenel ſacro agone
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            Se ne poteßer gir; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s85" xml:space="preserve">quinci di nouo
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            Ritornar (marauiglia) anco à l’albergo.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s87" xml:space="preserve">Coſi dice egli, moſtrando, che non d’altro egli parlaſſe
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            che di queſti artificij, facendo manifeſta mentione d’Auto
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            mati, e di ruote poſte ſotto il fondo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s88" xml:space="preserve">Vulcano, come dicĕ-
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            mo, nacque di Giunone, e Bacco di Gioue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s89" xml:space="preserve">Cacco fu Marì
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            to d’ Ariadna, e queſt a figliuola di Minoſſe R è di Creta,
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            per ordine del quale Dedalo fece il Laberinto, onde ſi cõ-
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            clude che da Vulcano à Dedalo non vi foſſe diſtanza di
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            tempo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s90" xml:space="preserve">e che perciò Dedalo poteſſe imparare da Vulcano
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            I’arte di quelte Machine Se mouenti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s91" xml:space="preserve">e che ciò ſia vero, ſi
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            caua da’ verſid Homero nel medeſimo luogo, doue egli
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            dice, che opere ſimili à quelle di Vulcano hauea fatto
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            Dedalo per Ariadna, nellequali opere v’erano giouanet-
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            ti, e fanciulle, che porgendoſi la mano, ſe ne andauano
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            ballando. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s92" xml:space="preserve">Opera del medeſimo Vulcano era quel cane
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            d oro animato, (come ſcriue Dioniſio antichiſsimo inter-
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            pret d’Homero) che fu rubbato in Candia dal Tempio
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            di Gioue, da vn Dionimo, e dato in guardia à Tantalo;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s93" xml:space="preserve">onde ſucceſſe poi la ruina del detto Dionimo, e delle mo-
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            glie, e delle figliuoleſue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s94" xml:space="preserve">Di queſto medeſimo cane fa
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            mentione Giulio Polluce, eccetto, ch’egli dice, non eſſer
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            ſtato fatto d’oro, ma dimetallo moneſio. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s95" xml:space="preserve">Da queſto ca-
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            ne (come egliſcriue) fauoleggiarono, che diſcendeſſero
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            i Moloſsi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s96" xml:space="preserve">Dell’opere di Dedalo, fece mentione Platone
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            nel ſuo Dialogo intitolato Mennone, le imagini del qua-
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            Ie dice ch’erano fatte con tal’artificio, che, ſe non erano
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            legate, ſe ne fuggiuano; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s97" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s98" xml:space="preserve">Ariſtotele nel primo de’Libri
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            Politici, doue egli ragiona de’ſerui, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s99" xml:space="preserve">gli diffiniſce inſtru
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            menti animati, da’ quali gliinanimatiſono moſsi, </s>
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