Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, 1567

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                <emph style="sc">Item</emph>
              eſt in inſula Chio fons, e quo qui imprudenter biberint, fiunt inſipientes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19376" xml:space="preserve">ibi eſt Epi-
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              gramma inſculptum ea ſententia; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19377" xml:space="preserve">iucundam eſſe potionem fontis eius, ſed qui biberint ſaxeos habitu-
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              rum ſenſus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19378" xml:space="preserve">Sunt autem uerſus hi.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19379" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19380" xml:space="preserve">Giſcaferius uertit.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19381" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19382" xml:space="preserve">Sunt gelidifontis latices, dulcesq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19383" xml:space="preserve">bibenti;</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19384" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19385" xml:space="preserve">Saxeus attamen hic illico ſenſus erit.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19386" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19387" xml:space="preserve">
                <emph style="sc">Svsis</emph>
              autem, in qua ciuitate eſt regnum Perſarum, fonticulus eſt, ex quo qui biberint, amittunt
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              dentes. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19388" xml:space="preserve">Item in eo eſt ſeriptum Epigramma, quòd ſignificat hanc ſententiam. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19389" xml:space="preserve">Egregiam eſſe aquam
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              ad lauandum, ſed eam ſi bibatur, excutere e radicibus dentes. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19390" xml:space="preserve">Et huius Epigrammatos ſunt uerſus
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.291-01" xlink:href="note-514.01.291-01a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
              Græce. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19391" xml:space="preserve">Moretus uertit.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19392" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19393" xml:space="preserve">Hoſpes aquam cernis metuendam, innoxia membris
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              Sumere mortales, unde lauacra queant:
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19394" xml:space="preserve">Sin imum in uentrem nitidam deieceris undam,
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              Admoris tantum labra ſuprema licet,
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              Protinns in terram labentur ab ore molares,
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              Et ſedes linquent mandibulæ uacuas.</s>
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            <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
            <head xml:id="echoid-head133" xml:space="preserve">De proprietate item nonnullorum locorum, & fon-
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            tium. Cap. IIII.</head>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19396" xml:space="preserve">
                <emph style="sc">SVnt</emph>
              etiam nonnullis locis fontium proprietates, quæ procreant, qui ibi naſcuntur egre-
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              gijs uocibus ad cantandum, uti Tharſo, Magneſiæ, alijsq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19397" xml:space="preserve">huiuſmodi regionibus.
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19398" xml:space="preserve">Etiamq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19399" xml:space="preserve">Zama eſt ciuitas Afrorum, cuius mœnia rex Iuba duplici muro ſepſit, ibiq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19400" xml:space="preserve">regiã
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              ſibi domum conſtituit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19401" xml:space="preserve">Ab ea millia paſſuum uiginti eſt oppidum Iſmuc, cuius agrorum
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              regiones incredibili finitæ ſunt terminatione. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19402" xml:space="preserve">Cum eſſet enim Aphrica parens, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19403" xml:space="preserve">nutrix ferarum
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              beſtiarum, maximè ſerpentium, in eius agris oppidi nulla naſcitur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19404" xml:space="preserve">ſi quando allata ibi ponatur,
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              ſtatim moritur, neque id ſolum ibi, ſed etiam terra ex his locis, ſi alio translata fuerit, ſimiliter effi-
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              cit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19405" xml:space="preserve">Id genus terræ etiam Balearibus dicitur eſſe. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19406" xml:space="preserve">ſed aliam mirabiliorem uirtutem ea habet terra, quá
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              ego ſicaccepi. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19407" xml:space="preserve">C. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19408" xml:space="preserve">Iulius Maſiniſſæ filius, cuius erant totius oppidi agrorum poſſeſsiones, cum pa-
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              tre Cæſare militauit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19409" xml:space="preserve">Is hoſpitio meo uſus eſt, ita quotidiano conuictu neceſſe fuerat dephilologia
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              diſputare. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19410" xml:space="preserve">Interim cum eſſet inter nos de aquæ poteſtate, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19411" xml:space="preserve">eius uirtutibus ſermo, expoſuit eſſe in
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              ea terra eiuſmodi fontes, ut qui ibi procrearentur, uoces ad cantandum egregias haberent. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19412" xml:space="preserve">Ideoq́;
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19413" xml:space="preserve">ſemper tranſmarinos cataſtos emere formoſos, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19414" xml:space="preserve">puellas maturas, cosq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19415" xml:space="preserve">coniungere, ut qui naſceren-
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              tur ex his, non ſolum egregia uoce, ſed etiam forma eſſent non inuenuſta.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19417" xml:space="preserve">Zamenſes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19418" xml:space="preserve">Iſmuc oppidi ciues, cum uiderent natos in ea terra, ideſt qui eorum in terra procrearentur,
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              uoces habere ad cantandum egregias, emebant ſeruos ideſt cataſtas, uerbum ſignificat a catastacompede,
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              formoſos tranſmarinos, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19419" xml:space="preserve">puellas maturas uiro, ut in eorum terra ſimul coniungerentur ad ſobolem procreã-
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              dam, quoniam qui ex illis naſcebantur ex natura fontium, e quibus bibebant, egregia erant uoce; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19420" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19421" xml:space="preserve">quo-
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              niam parentes formoſi erant, etiam nati non inuenusta forma naſcebantur.</s>
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            <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">40</note>
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              hæc tanta uarietas ſit diſparibus rebus natura diſtributa, quod humanum corpus eſt ex ali-
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              qua parte terrenum, in eo autem multa genera ſunt humorum, uti ſanguinis, lactis, ſudoris, urinæ,
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              lachrymarum: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19424" xml:space="preserve">ergo ſi in parua particula terreni, tanta diſcrepantia inuenitur ſaporum, non eſt mi-
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              randum ſi in tanta magnitudine terræ, innumerabilis ſuccorum reperiantur uarietates, per quarum
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              uenas aquæ uis percurrens tincta peruenit ad fontium egreſſus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19425" xml:space="preserve">ita ex eo diſpares, uarijq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19426" xml:space="preserve">perfi-
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              ciuntur in proprijs generibus fontes, propter locorum diſcrepantiam, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19427" xml:space="preserve">regionum qualitates, terra-
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              rumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19428" xml:space="preserve">diſsimiles proprietates. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19429" xml:space="preserve">Ex his autem rebus ſunt nonnulla, quæ ego per me perſpexi. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19430" xml:space="preserve">Cætera
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              in libris Græcis ſcripta inueni, quorum ſcriptorum hi ſunt auctores, Theophraſtus, Timæus, Poſsi-
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              donius, Hegeſias, Herodotus, Ariſtides, Metrodorus, qui magna uigilantia & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19431" xml:space="preserve">infinito ſtudio loco-
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              rum proprietates, aquarum uirtutes ab inclinatione cœli, regionum qualitates ita diſtributas eſſe ſcri-
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              pris declarauerunt: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19432" xml:space="preserve">quorum ſecutus ingreſſus, in hoc libro perſcripſi, quæ ſatis eſſe putaui de aquæ
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              uarietatibus, quo facilius ex his perſcriptionibus eligant homines aquæ fontes, quibus ad uſum ſalien-
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              tes poſsint ad ciuitates, municipiaq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19433" xml:space="preserve">perducere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19434" xml:space="preserve">Nulla enim ex omnibus rebus tantas uidetur habere
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              ad uſum neceſsitates, quantasaqua. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19435" xml:space="preserve">Ideo quòd omnium animalium natura, ſi frumenti fructu priua-
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              ta fuerit, arbuſtis ue, aut carne, aut piſcatu, aut etiam qualibet ex his reliquis rebus eſcarum utendo
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              poterit tueri uitam: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19436" xml:space="preserve">Sine aqua uero nec corpus animalium, nec ulla cibi uirtus poteſt naſci, nec tue-
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              ri, nec parari. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19437" xml:space="preserve">Quare magna diligentia, induſtriaq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19438" xml:space="preserve">quærendi ſunt, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19439" xml:space="preserve">eligendi fontes ad humanæ ui-
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              tæ ſalubritatem.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s19441" xml:space="preserve">Postquam in uentæ aquæ fuerint, neceſſe eſt eas probare, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19442" xml:space="preserve">eligere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19443" xml:space="preserve">quoniam uero electio fit multis pro-
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              poſitis rebus, ut ex omnibus melior accipiatur ideo Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s19444" xml:space="preserve">poſt inuentionem aquarum multas attulit qualitates,
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