Vitruvius
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De architectura libri decem
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1567
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nec præstat experientia, & </
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cit, rationem poteſt, cum extra ſenſum nihil adhibeat, quod ex Platonis ſententia ſeruile opus eſt, niſi forte ex-
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perientiam uoces: </
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alterum ſibi ſimilem constituere; </
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quod eſt. </
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criter in Mathematicis eruditus planè ſentit. </
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pulus uniuerſus regitur. </
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mè igitur inuentoribus gratiæ habendæ: </
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dendis non ſequar exactam illam & </
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mis enim ſtud io ſorum uota retardarem, & </
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ticem eſſe orationis auctricem, & </
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cendum inſtituat, ut Rhetorices ad perſuadendum, & </
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continentem, quàm ſecretam, & </
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atque ad ſonos comparatos diſcutimus. </
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quadam ratione contineri ſolent. </
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commoditate, & </
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Pictura, Scalptura, Lanificium, ac denique Medicina, & </
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minus idoneæ, aptæq́; </
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quàm aliquid diſſeramus, interponenda eſt M. </
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opus primum ut de ſe bene merenti gratias referat. </
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dit: </
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qua illud etiam obſeruandum, quod procul ab adulatione Vitr. </
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uirtute cunctis hoſtibus ſtratis, triumpho,uictoriaq́ue tua ciues gloriarentur, & </
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actæ tuum ſpectarent nutum: </
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gitationibus, conſilijsq́ue gubernaretur,non audebam tantis occupationibus de Architectura ſcri-
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