Vitruvius
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De architectura libri decem
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1567
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arithmeticam ſumptus ædificiorum conſumantur, menſurarum rationes explicantur: </
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Iesq́; </
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praxis ad rationem, & </
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enim labor, inutilis operum ingreſſus, cum ſumptus deficit. </
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pecuniæ defectus maximè: </
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eius obligantur, donec opus ſit perfectum. </
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honoribus ornatur. </
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eſt noſcere de quibus rebus facienda est, ideò in eodem loco inquit Vitr. </
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imperitiſed qui ſumma doctrinarum ſubtilitate eſſent prudentes, ſine dubitatione profiterentur Architectu-
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ram. </
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las inquam, quæ Geometrica ope diſſolui non poſſunt: </
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ad omnes diſciplinas idoneos eſſe: </
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gnant, de quibus argumentis, rationem cur fecerint quærentibus reddere debent. </
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loponeſsi cum Perſis hoſtibus contra Græciam conſenſit, poſtea Græci per uictoriam gloriosè bello
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liberati, communi conſilio Caryatibus bellum indixerunt, itaque oppido capto, uiris intcrfectis, ci-
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preſſæ, pœnas pendere uiderentur pro ciuitate. </
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deſignauerunt earum imagines oneri ferendo collocatas, ut etiam poſteris nota pœna peccati Carya-
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ca manu infinitum numerum exercitus Perſarum cum ſuperauiſſent, acto cum gloria triumpho ſpolio
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cum mens erit in gratiam principum ædiſicia ornare eorum factorum memoria, quæ decus illis, contemptum
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hoſtibus,exemplũ posteris parant. </
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circundato,cum de illius uictoriæ monumentũ relinquendum eſſet? </
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neus loco quodam uidetur innuere eas ſiniſtra manu ſublata ad pondus, altera deiecta ſtetiſſe. </
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Caryatidum genera fuiſſe: </
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">& </
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xml:id
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xml:space
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">muliebres statuas a primis illis Caryatidas fuiſſe nominatas. </
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meus in caſtigationibus Plimanis Cap. </
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xml:space
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">quinto libri trigeſimi ſexti urbem Caryam a Pauſania multitudinis uo-
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cabulo Caryas pronunciari. </
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xml:id
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echoid-s1124
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xml:space
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">Stola uerò longa, & </
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xml:id
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echoid-s1125
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xml:space
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<
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des libro primo Spartanum Cleombroti filium Græcorum ducem dicit. </
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ſanias in Laconicis eius Pauſaniæ genus recenſet, & </
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echoid-s1128
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xml:space
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quentibus facinoribus benemeriti de Græcia nomen amiſiſſe, prodidit enim auro Græcos & </
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">60</
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