Vitruvius
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De architectura libri decem
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1567
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Philoſophus Socraticus, nauſragio cum eiectus ad Rhodien-
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ſium littus animaduertiſſet Geometrica ſchemata deſcripta, exclamauiſſe
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ad comites ita dicitur. </
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ibiq́; </
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ornaret, ſed etiam eis, qui unà fuerant, ueſtitum, & </
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ſent ad uictum, præſtaret. </
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luiſſent, interrogarentq́; </
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ita mandauit dicere. </
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rari, quæ etiam enaufragio unà poſſent enatare. </
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tunæ tempeſtas iniqua, neque publicarum rerum mutatio, neque belli uaſtatio poteſt nocere. </
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minus cam ſententiam augendo, Theophraſtus hortando doctos potius eſſe, quàm pecuniæ confiden
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tes, ita ponit. </
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ribus, & </
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more poſſe deſpicere caſus. </
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labidis itineribus uadentem, non ſtabili, ſed inſirma conflictari uita. </
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ait. </
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gitationibus gubernari. </
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tiquas comœdias Græcè ſeripſerunt, & </
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tes, Chionides, Ariſtophanes, maxime etiam cum his Alexis, qui Athenienſes ait ideo oportere lau-
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dari, quod omnium Græcorum leges cogunt parentes ali a liberis, Athenienſium non omnes, niſi
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eos, qui liberosartibus erudiſſent. </
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tur. </
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fummum exitum uitæ. </
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A thenienſium legem probantes, mc arte erudiendum curauerunt, & </
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ſine literatura, encyclioq́; </
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rum doctrinis au ctas haberem copias diſciplinarum, philologis, & </
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rumq́; </
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lam plus habendi neceſsitatem, eamq́; </
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te non nulli hæc leuia iudicantes, putant eos eſſe tantum ſapientes, qui pecunia ſunt copioſi. </
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plerique ad id propoſitum contendentes, audacia adhibita cum diuitijs etiam notitiam ſunt conſe-
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quuti. </
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cum bona fama, quàm abundantiam cum infamia ſequen dam probaui. </
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cuta, ſed tamen his uoluminibus editis ( ut ſpero ) poſteris etiam ero notus. </
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ita pluribus ſim ignotus. </
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ceptoribus eſt traditum, rogatum, non rogantem oportere ſuſcipere curam, quod ingenuus color
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mouetur pudore petendo rem ſuſpicioſam; </
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tentis, niſi quod prædę, compendijq́; </
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non audaciæ proteruitatis committendum iudicantes. </
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liberos, aut cognatos, & </
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tudinem iactari, & </
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bent, non poſſum non laudare patres familias cos, qui literaturæ fiducia confirmati, per ſe ædifican-
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tes ita iudicant, ſi imperitis ſit committendum, ipſos potius digniores eſſe, ad ſuam uoluntatem, quàm
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ad alienam pecuniæ conſumere ſummam. </
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ſutrinam, ucl fullonicam, aut ex cæteris, quæ ſunt faciliores, niſi Architecturam, ideo quod, qui pro-
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