Vitruvius, M. Vitruvii ... de architectura libri decem, ad Augustum Caesarem accuratiß conscripti: & nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, atq[ue] hinc inde schematibus non iniucundis exornati
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3418" xml:space="preserve">CAETERIS conclauibus, id est uernis, autumnalibus, æſtiuis ett-
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            am atrijs et periſtylijs, conſtitutæ ſunt ab antiquis ex certis rebus
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            certæ rationes picturarum. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3419" xml:space="preserve">Nan pictura imago fit eius quod eſt, ſeu po
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            teſt eſſe, uti hominis, ædificij, nauis, reliquarum{qúe} rerum, è quarum for-
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            mis certis{qúe} corporum finibus figurataſimilitudine ſumuntur exempla.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3420" xml:space="preserve">Ex eo antiqui, qui initia expolitionibus inſtituerunt, imitati ſunt primum
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            cruſtarum marmorearum uarietates & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3421" xml:space="preserve">collocationes, deinde corona-
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            rum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3422" xml:space="preserve">ſilaceorum, miniaceorum{qúe} cuneorum inter ſe uari{as} diſtribu-
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            tiones. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3423" xml:space="preserve">Poſteaingreßi ſunt, ut etiam ædificiorum figur {as}, columnarum{qúe}
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3424" xml:space="preserve">faſtigiorum eminentes proiectur {as} imitarentur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3425" xml:space="preserve">patentibus autem lo-
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            cis, utiexedris, propter amplitudinem parietum, ſcenarum frontes Tra-
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            gico more, aut Comico, ſeu Satyrico deſignarent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3426" xml:space="preserve">Ambulationibus uero
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            propter ſpatia longitudinis, uarietatibus topiorum ornarent ab certis lo-
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            corum proprietatibus imagines exprimentes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3427" xml:space="preserve">Pinguntur enim portus,
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            promontoria, litora, flumina, fontes, eurypi, fana, luci, montes, pecora, pa
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            ſtores, nonnullis locis item ſignorũ megalographiam habentem, deorum
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            ſimulacra, ſeu fabularum diſpoſit{as} explicationes, nõ minus Troian{as} pu
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            gn{as}, ſeu Vlyßis err ationes per topia, cætera{qúe} quæ ſunt eorum ſimilibus
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            rationibus ab rerum natura procreata. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3428" xml:space="preserve">Sed hæc quæ à ueteribus ex ueris
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            rebus exempla ſumebantur, nunc iniquis moribus improbãtur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3429" xml:space="preserve">Nam pin
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            guntur tectorijs monſtra potius, quàm ex rebus finitis imagines certæ. </s>
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            Pro columnis enim ſtatuuntur calami, pro faſtigijs arpaginetuli ſtriati
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            cum criſpis folijs & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3431" xml:space="preserve">uolutis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3432" xml:space="preserve">Item candelabra ædicularum ſuſtinentia fi-
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            gur {as}, ſupr a faſtigia earum ſurgentes ex radicibus cum uolutis coliculite
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            neri plures, habentes in ſe ſine ratione ſedentia ſigilla, non minus etiam ex
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            coliculis flores dimidiata habentes ex ſe exeũtia ſigilla, alia humanis, alia
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            beſtiarum capitibus ſimilia. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3433" xml:space="preserve">Hæc autem nec ſunt, nec fieripoſſunt, nec fue
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            runt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3434" xml:space="preserve">Ergo ita noui mores coegerunt, uti inertia mali iudices conniueant
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            artium uirtutes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3435" xml:space="preserve">Quemadmodum enim poteſt calamus uere ſuſtinere te-
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            ctum, aut candelabrum ædicul{as}, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3436" xml:space="preserve">ornamẽta faſtigij, ſeu coliculus tam
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            tenuis & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3437" xml:space="preserve">mollis, ſuſtinere ſedens ſigillum, aut de radicibus, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3438" xml:space="preserve">coliculis
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            ex parte flores dimidiata{qúe} ſigilla procreari? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3439" xml:space="preserve">At hæc falſa uidentes homi
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            nes non reprehendunt, ſed delectantur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3440" xml:space="preserve">ne animaduertunt, ſi quid eo-
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            rum fieri poteſt nec ne. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3441" xml:space="preserve">Iudicijs autem in firmis obſcuratæ mentes, non ua</s>
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