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          <head xml:id="echoid-head184" xml:space="preserve">DE ARCHITECTVRA.
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          LIBER NONVS.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4203" xml:space="preserve">NOBILIBVS ATHLETIS, QVIO-
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            lympia, Pitbia, iſtmia, Nemea, uiciſſent, Græcorũ ma-
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            iores ita magnos honores conſtituerunt, uti non modo
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            in conuentu ſtantes cum palma & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4204" xml:space="preserve">corona ferant lau-
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            des, ſed etiam cum reuertantur in ſuas ciuitates cum ui
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            ctoria, triumphantes quadrigis in mœnia et in patrias inuehantur, ère{qúe}
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            publica perpetua uita conſtitutis uectigalibus fruantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4205" xml:space="preserve">Cumergo id a-
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            nimaduertam, admiror, quid ita nõ ſcriptoribus ijdem honores, etiam{qúe}
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            maiores ſint tributi, qui infinitas utilitates æuo perpetuo omnibus genti-
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            bus præſtant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4206" xml:space="preserve">Id enim magis er at inſtitui dignum, quòd Athletæ ſua cor-
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            pora exercitationibus efficiunt fortiora, ſcriptores non ſolum ſuos ſenſu@
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            perficiunt, ſed etiam omnium libris ad diſcendum, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4207" xml:space="preserve">animos exacuen-
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            dos præpar antes præcepta. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4208" xml:space="preserve">Quid enim Milo Crotoniates, quòd fuit inui-
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            ctus, prodest hominibus? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4209" xml:space="preserve">aut cæteri quieo genere fuerunt uictores, niſi
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            quòd dum uixerunt ipſi, inter ſuos ciues habuerunt nobilitatem? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4210" xml:space="preserve">Pytha-
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            goræ uero præcepta, Democriti, Platonis, Ariſtotelis, cæterorum{qúe} ſapi
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            entum quotidiana perpetuis induſtrijs culta, non ſolum ſuis ciuibus, ſed
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            etiam omnibus gentibus recentes, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4211" xml:space="preserve">floridos edunt fructus:</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4212" xml:space="preserve">è quibus qui
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            àteneris ætatibus doctrinar um abundantia ſatiantur, optimos habent ſa
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            pientiæ ſenſus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4213" xml:space="preserve">inſtituunt{qúe} ciuitatibus humanit atis mores, æqua iura, le-
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            ges: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4214" xml:space="preserve">quibus abſentibus, nulla potest eſſe ciuitœ
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            s incolumis. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4215" xml:space="preserve">Cum ergo tan-
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            ta munera ab ſcriptorum prudentia, priuatim publicé{qúe} fuerint homini-
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            bus præparata, non ſolum arbitror palmas & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4216" xml:space="preserve">coronas his tribui opor-
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            tere, ſed etiam decerni triumphos, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4217" xml:space="preserve">inter deorum ſedes eos dedicandos
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            iudicari. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4218" xml:space="preserve">Eorum autem cogitata utiliter hominibus ad uitã explicandam,
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            èpluribus ſingula paucorum, utiexempla ponam, quæ recognoſcentes ne
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            ceſſario his tribui honores oportere homines confitebuntur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4219" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4220" xml:space="preserve">primum
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            Platonis è multis ratiocinationibus utilißimis unam, quemadmodum ab
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            eo explicata ſit, ponam.</s>
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