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            ſendere la ſalute, o libertà. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4967" xml:space="preserve">Eſſendoci ſuperiori gli inimici, o p numero, o per
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            fortuna; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4968" xml:space="preserve">Non approuiamo però il parere di coſtoro, che uollono le loro città
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            ſpogliate di Mura; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4969" xml:space="preserve">nè il parere di coloro ancora, che pare che poneſsino ogni lo
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            ro ſperanza di difeſa ne le mura de la città. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4970" xml:space="preserve">Io niente dimeno, accõſento à Pla-
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            tone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4971" xml:space="preserve">eſſendo naturalméte qualunche città in ogni momento di tempo, ſempre
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-112-01" xlink:href="note-112-01a" xml:space="preserve">5</note>
            eſpoſta a pericoli d'eſſer fatta ſuggetta; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4972" xml:space="preserve">poiche da la Natura, o da coſtumi de gli
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            huomini è dato, che neſſuno nè in publico, nè in priuato habbia mai poſto ter-
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            mine a l'ingordo deſiderio, che ſi ha, de lo hauere, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4973" xml:space="preserve">del poſſedere, piu che quel
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            lo, che ſi poſsiede; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4974" xml:space="preserve">da la qual coſa principalmente, è nata ogni Ingiuria d'armi.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4975" xml:space="preserve">Si che chi negherà che e' non ſi debba aggiugnere guardie a le guardie, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4976" xml:space="preserve">for-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-112-02" xlink:href="note-112-02a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
            ziſicamenti a forzificamenti ſecondo che altroue habbiamo detto. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4977" xml:space="preserve">Quella cit
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            tà ſarà piu di tutte l'altre capace, che ſarà tonda. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4978" xml:space="preserve">Sicuriſsima quella che ſarà cinta
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            di mura interrotte hor in dentro, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4979" xml:space="preserve">hor in fuori, come dice Tacito, ch'era Hiero
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            ſolima: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4980" xml:space="preserve">Percioche e' tengono per fermo che non ſi poſſa ſenza pericolo entrare
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            infra due parti che ſportino infuora;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4981" xml:space="preserve">nè con certa ſperanza ſi poſsino accoſtar le
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-112-03" xlink:href="note-112-03a" xml:space="preserve">15</note>
            Macchine da guerra a le Teſte;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4982" xml:space="preserve">auertiremo niente dimeno, a pigliar le commo-
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            dità, che ci ſi offeriſcono a beneficio di eſſo caſtello, o Terra. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4983" xml:space="preserve">La qual coſa hab
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            bian noi notata, che fecero gli Antichi, ſecondo la opportunità, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4984" xml:space="preserve">ſecõdo la ne-
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            ceſsità de luoghi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4985" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che Antio antica città de Latini, per abbracciar il
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            ſeno del lito mediante le reliquie de le antiche rouine, ſi dimoſtra eſſere ſtata
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-112-04" xlink:href="note-112-04a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            molto lũga. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4986" xml:space="preserve">Il Cairo ſul Nilo dicono ancora che è molto lunga. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4987" xml:space="preserve">Palumbrota
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            città de la India, in Graſij, ſcriue Metaſtene che fu lunga ſedeci miglia, larga tre,
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            diſteſa a ſecõda de la fiumara. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4988" xml:space="preserve">Il circuito de le mura di Babillonia, dicono che
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            fu quadrangolare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4989" xml:space="preserve">Et Memſi, dicono che haueua le Mura fatte a modo di uno
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            D. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4990" xml:space="preserve">Finalmente qualũche diſegno di circuito tutti approui, Vegetio ſi penſa che
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            e' ſia aſſai a baſtãza per neceſsità de la coſa, ſe tu farai le mura tanto larghe, che
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            duoi Soldati armati ſtandoui a la difeſa, poſsino riſcontrandoſi l'un ne l'altro
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            paſſare ſacilmente ſenza alcuno impedimento: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4991" xml:space="preserve">Et ſe le ſaranno tanto alte, che
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            accoſtateui le ſcale, non ui ſi poſſa ſalire, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4992" xml:space="preserve">ſe le ſi ſaranno con la calcina, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4993" xml:space="preserve">con il
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            murare tanto ſode, che le nõ cedino a gli Arieti, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4994" xml:space="preserve">a le macchine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4995" xml:space="preserve">Lemacchine
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            certamente ſono di due ſorti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4996" xml:space="preserve">una è quella, con la quale percotendo, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4997" xml:space="preserve">battedo
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            ſi gettano a terra le muraglie; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4998" xml:space="preserve">L'altra è quella, mediante la quale accoſtãdoſi a le
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            mura, le ſi ſcalzano ſotto, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4999" xml:space="preserve">ſi rouinano. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5000" xml:space="preserve">Prouederaſsi a l'una, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5001" xml:space="preserve">a l'altra in grã
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            parte, non tanto con un muro quanto con una foſſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5002" xml:space="preserve">Concioſia che in queſto
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            luogo, non lodano la muraglia ſe ella non è fondata inſino di ſotto a l'acqua, o
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            ſopra di un ſaldo maſſo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5003" xml:space="preserve">Mauogliono che eſſa foſſa ſia oltra modo larga, & </s>
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            oltra modo profonda: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5005" xml:space="preserve">Percioche eſſendo coſi, impedirà a la Teſtuggine an-
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            dante, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5006" xml:space="preserve">a la Torre, o a ſimili altre Macchine, il poterſi accoſtare a la mura-
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            glia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5007" xml:space="preserve">Et ritrouata l'acqua, o il ſaſlo, ſarà certo fatica indarno, il uolerui far ſotto
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            Mine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5008" xml:space="preserve">Diſputaſi infra gli huomini di guerra, qual ſia piu utile coſa, o che i foſ-
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            ſi ſtieno pieni di acqua, o uero aſciutti; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5009" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5010" xml:space="preserve">ſi riſoluono che primieramente ſi deb-
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            ba procurar a lo ſtare ſano de gli habitanti. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5011" xml:space="preserve">Dipoi lodano aſſai quei ſoſsi, ne
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            quali ſe per l'impeto del trarre, ui fia dentro caduto coſa alcuna; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5012" xml:space="preserve">ella ſi poſſa
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            leuare uia in un ſubito, purgando detti foſsi commo diſsimamente; </s>
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