Vitruvius Pollio, I dieci libri dell?architettura, 1567

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                  mento, che era al porto Pireo. </s>
                  <s id="s.005794">Hermogene del Tempio Ionico di Diana, che è in Ma
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                  gneſia Pſeudodipteros, & di quello, che è a Teo di Bacco Monopteros. </s>
                  <s id="s.005795">Argelio del­
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                  le miſure Corinthie, & delle Ioniche ad Eſculapio in Tralli, il quale ſi dice eſſer di ſua
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                  mano. </s>
                  <s id="s.005796">Del Mauſoleo Satiro, & Pitheo, a i quali ueramente la felicità fece un grandiſ­
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                  ſimo dono, perche le arti loro ſtimate ſono hauer ſempre grandiſsime lodi, & fiorite con
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                  tinuamente, & hanno anchora dato mirabil opere ſecondo le coſe penſate da loro, perche
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                  in ciaſcuno lato del Mauſoleo a concorrenza ciaſcuno artefice ſi tolſe di ornare, & pro­
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                  uare la parte ſua, Leochare, Briaſſe, Scopa, & Praxitele, & altri ui mettono Timotheo,
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                  la eccellenza grande dell'arte de i quali conſtrinſe il nome di quella opera peruenire alla ſa
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                  ma de i ſette miracoli del mondo. </s>
                  <s id="s.005797">Molti ancho men nominati hanno ſcritto le regole
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                  delle proportionate miſure come Nexare, Theocide, Demofilo, Pollis, Leonida, Sila­
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                  nio, Melampo, Sarnaco, Eufranore. </s>
                  <s id="s.005798">Similmente delle machine, come Cliade, Archi­
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                  ta, Archimede, Cteſibio, Nimfodoro, Philo Bizantino, Diphilo, Charida, Polijdo,
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                  Phitone, Ageſiſtrato. </s>
                  <s id="s.005799">De i commentari de i quali quello, che io ho auuertito eſſer uti­
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                  le a queſte coſe raccolte ho ridutto in un corpo, & queſto ſpecialmente, perche io ho ue­
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                  duto molti uolumi ſopra queſta coſa da Greci, & pochi da noſtri eſſer dati in luce; perche
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                  Fuſsitio primo di tal coſe deliberò di dar in luce un mirabile uolume. </s>
                  <s id="s.005800">Et appreſſo Te­
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                  rentio Varrone ſcriſſe delle nuoue diſcipline, & un libro di Architettura. </s>
                  <s id="s.005801">Publio Set­
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                  timio ne fece due. </s>
                  <s id="s.005802">Et piu non è ſtato chi habbia dato opera a ſimile maniera di ſcritture,
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                  eſſendo ſtati i cittadini grandi Architetti, i quali hanno potuto ſcriuere non meno elegan
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                  temente de i ſopradetti, perche in Athene Antiſthene, & Calleſchro, & Antimachide, &
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                  Dorino Architetti poſero le fondamenta del Tempio, che faceua far Piſiſtrato di Gioue
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                  Olimpio: ma dapoi la morte di quello, per lo impedimento delle coſe publiche, lo laſcia
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                  rono imperfetto, & però da dugento anni dapoi Antiocho Re hauendo promeſſo la ſpe­
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                  ſa per quell'opera Coſſutio Cittadin Romano con gran prontezza, & ſomma cognitione
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                  nobilmente fece la Cella, & la collocatione delle colonne intorno il Dipteros, & la di­
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                  ſtributione de gli Architraui, & de gli altri ornamenti con proportionata miſura. </s>
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                  <s id="s.005803">Queſta opera non ſolamente tra le uulgari, ma tra le poche è dalla magnificenza nomi­
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                  nata, perche in quattro parti ſono le diſpoſitioni de i luoghi ſacri ornate di marmo delle
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                  quali queſte con chiariſsima fama nominate ſono; le eccellenze delle quali, & i prudenti
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                  apparati de i loro penſieri hanno ne i ſeggi de i Dei gran merauiglia, & ſi fanno guardare. </s>
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                  Prima il Tempio di Diana in Efeſo alla lonica fu fatto da Cteſifonte Gnoſio, & da Meta
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                  gene ſuo figliuolo, & poi Demetrio ſeruo di Diana, & Dafni Mileſio a Mileto fecero il
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                  Tempio d'Apollo con le miſure Ioniche, Ictimo alla Dorica a Cerere Eleuſina, & a Pro
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                  ſerpina fabricarono una cella di ſmiſurata grandezza, ſenza le colonne di fuori allo ſpatio
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                  dell'uſo de i ſacrificij, & quella dominando in Athene Demetrio Falereo, dapoi fu fatta
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                  da Philone d'aſpetto Proſtilos, & coſi accreſciuto il ueſtibulo laſciò lo ſpatio a quelli,
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                  che conſacrauano, & diede grande autorità all'opera. </s>
                  <s id="s.005805">In Aſti ſi dice ancho, che Coſſu­
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                  tio ſi pigliò la impreſa di far Gioue Olimpio con ampliſsimi moduli, & di miſure, &
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                  proportioni Corinthie, come s'è detto di ſopra, del qual niuno commentario è ſtato ri­
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                  trouato. </s>
                  <s id="s.005806">Nè ſolamente da Coſſutio tal ſorte di ſcritti ſono da deſiderare, ma ancho da
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                  Caio Mutio, il quale confidatoſi nella ſua grande ſcienza, con legitime ordinationi del­
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                  l'arte conduſſe a fine il Tempio dell'honore, & della uirtù della cella Mariana, & le pro­
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                  portioni delle miſure, & de gli Architraui. </s>
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                  <s id="s.005807">Quel Tempio ſe egli fuſſe ſtato fatto di marmo, accioche egli haueſſe hauuto come dal­
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                  l'arte la ſottigliezza, coſi dalla magnificenza, & dalle ſpeſe l'autorità, certamente tra le
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                  prime, & grandi opere ſarebbe nominato. </s>
                  <s id="s.005808">Ritrouandoſi adunque, & de gli antichi no
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                  ſtri non meno de i Greci eſſere ſtati grandi Architetti, & molti ancho di noſtra memoria </s>
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