Vitruvius, Marci Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem : ope codicis Guelferbytani, editionis principis, ceterorumque subsidiorum recensuit, et glossario in quo vocabula artis propria Germ. Ital. Gall. et Angl. explicantur, 1800

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              <pb o="261" file="0285" n="285" rhead="LIBER X. CAPUT XXII."/>
            a latere dextra ac ſiniſtra procurrendo, perſtringebat non minus pedes C.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4545" xml:space="preserve">Gubernabant eam homines C habentem pondus talentum quatuor millium,
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            quod fit CCCCLXXX pondo.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head132" xml:space="preserve">CAPUT XXII.
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          De repugnatoriis.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4547" xml:space="preserve">De ſcorpionibus et catapultis et baliſtis, etiamque teſtudinibus et turri-
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            bus, quae maxime mihi videbantur idonea, et a quibus eſſent inventa et
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            quemadmodum ſieri deberent, explicui. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4548" xml:space="preserve">Scalarum autem et carcheſiorum,
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            et eorum, quorum rationes ſunt imbecilliores, non neceſſe habui ſcribere.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4549" xml:space="preserve">Haec etiam milites per ſe ſolent facere, neque ea ipſa omnibus locis, ne-
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            que eisdem rationibus poſſunt utilia eſſe, quod diſſerentes ſunt munitio-
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            nes munitionibus, nationumque fortitudines. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4550" xml:space="preserve">Namque alia ratione ad au-
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            daces et temerarios, alia ad diligentes, aliter ad timidos machinationes
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            debent comparari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4551" xml:space="preserve">Itaque his praeſcriptionibus ſi quis attendere volue-
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            rit, ex varietate eorum eligendo, et in unam comparationem conferendo,
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            non indigebit auxiliis, ſed quascunque res, aut rationibus aut locis, ſi opus
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            fuerit, ſine dubitatione poterit explicare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4552" xml:space="preserve">De repugnatoriis vero non eſt
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            ſcriptis explicandum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4553" xml:space="preserve">Non enim ad noſtra ſcripta hoſtes comparant res
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            oppugnatorias, ſed machinationes eorum ex tempore ſolerti conſiliorum ce-
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            leritate ſine machinis ſaepius evertuntur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4554" xml:space="preserve">Quod etiam Rhodienſibus me-
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            moratur uſu veniſſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4555" xml:space="preserve">Diognetus enim fuerat Rhodius architectus, et ei
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            de publico quotannis certa merces pro artis dignitate tribuebatur ad ho- norem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4556" xml:space="preserve">Eo tempore quidam architectus ab Arado, nomine Callias, Rho-
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            dum cum veniſſet, acroaſin ſecit, exemplarque protulit muri, et ſupra id machinam in carcheſio verſatili conſtituit, qua helepolim ad moenia
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            accedentem corripuit et tranſtulit intra murum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4557" xml:space="preserve">Hoc exemplar Rhodii
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            cum vidiſſent, admirati ademerunt Diogneto quod ſuerat ei quotannis
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              <note symbol="1)" position="foot" xlink:label="note-0285-01" xlink:href="note-0285-01a" xml:space="preserve">Sic Cod. Guelf. pro pro arte.</note>
              <note symbol="2)" position="foot" xlink:label="note-0285-02" xlink:href="note-0285-02a" xml:space="preserve">Sic Cod. Guelf.</note>
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