Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, 1567

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              ſitania, Aquitania ſcandulis robuſteis, aut ſtramentis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4442" xml:space="preserve">Apud nationem Colchourm in ponto propter
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              ſyluarum abundantiam arboribus perptetuis, planis dextra, ac ſiniſtra, in terra poſitis, ſpatio inter ea
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              relicto, quanto arborum longitudines patiunter, collocantur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4443" xml:space="preserve">In extrem is partiubs partibus earum ſupra al-
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              teræ tranſuerſæ, quſae; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4444" xml:space="preserve">circurmcludunt medium ſpatium habitationis, tuncinſuper alternis trabibus ex
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              quatuor partibus angungulos iugumentantes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4445" xml:space="preserve">ita partietes ex arboribus ſtatuentes ad perpendiculum
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              imarum, educunt ad altitudinem turres, interuallaq́;</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4446" xml:space="preserve">, quæ relinquuntur propter craſsitudinem mate-
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              riæ ſchidijs, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4447" xml:space="preserve">luto obſtruunt. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4448" xml:space="preserve">Item tecta recidentes ad extremos angulos tranſtra traijciunt, grada-
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              tim contrahentes, ita ex quatuor partibus ad altitudinem educunt medio metas, quas & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4449" xml:space="preserve">fronde, & </s>
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              luto tegentes, efficiunt barbarico more teſtudinata turrium tecta.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4451" xml:space="preserve"/>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4452" xml:space="preserve">Certum ſatis mditium uidetur exterarum gentium uſus ad probandum ædificationem, ab initio buiuſmodi
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.081-01" xlink:href="note-514.01.081-01a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
              fuiſſe, cuiuſmodi a Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4453" xml:space="preserve">deſcripta eſt, nam quo artis pulcbritudo, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4454" xml:space="preserve">excellentia nondum peruenit, facile eſt,
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              ut ibi, quod eſt naturæ, facile retineatur: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4455" xml:space="preserve">quod uero natura fit, uniuſmodi fere ſemper, ac ſimile cernitur.
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4456" xml:space="preserve">Quis autem non uidet artes omnes ſuas quaſi ætates habuiſſe. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4457" xml:space="preserve">pueritiam, adoleſcentiam, uirilitatem quan-
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              dam, ac maturitatem? </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4458" xml:space="preserve">Quemadmodum aliàs de Arhitectura diximus, cuius! erudimenta prioribus ſeculis
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              incepta ſunt, mox in Aſia creuit, adoleuitq́;</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4459" xml:space="preserve">, cui Græcia uires dedit, Italia dignitatem. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4460" xml:space="preserve">Primum igitur ra-
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              tioniconſentaneum est Architecturam ab ijs initijs profectam, quæ neceſſitas bumano generiſtatim oſtendit. </s>
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              Quemadmodum legitur in his eße, quæ nuper inuentæſunt, inſulis, ubi caſæ roboribus innixæ, cannis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4462" xml:space="preserve">ui-
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              minibus intextæ ſtramentis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4463" xml:space="preserve">luto contectæ cernuntur, ea tamen ratione, ut magnitudine, pulchritudine,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4464" xml:space="preserve">commoditate perſonarum dignitati plurimum tribuatur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4465" xml:space="preserve">Hæc a noſtris, ut natura tulit, ita inuenta, ſed
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.081-02" xlink:href="note-514.01.081-02a" xml:space="preserve">20</note>
              poftquam frequentia celebrariea locacaperunt, politioribus lignis, elegantioribus formis ornata conſpiciun-
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              tur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4466" xml:space="preserve">Certum eſt igitur in dies artificia, inuentaq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4467" xml:space="preserve">hominum ſtudijs augeri. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4468" xml:space="preserve">Primum igitur quid poſſit natura,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4469" xml:space="preserve">neceſſitas ostendit, dum cauſam declarat, quæ homines antea diſperſi, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4470" xml:space="preserve">palantes unà congregati ſunt,
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              mox quid conſuetudo, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4471" xml:space="preserve">uſus præſtent, argumento a multis nationibus deſumpto, demum quid ars conferat,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4472" xml:space="preserve">obſeruatio, ſtudiumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4473" xml:space="preserve">demonſtrat: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4474" xml:space="preserve">A neceſſitate igitur ad commodum, a commodo ad dignitatem peruenit:
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4475" xml:space="preserve">Naturæ autem arsinnixæ nihil immutat eorum, quæ natura ſiunt, ſed modo quodam politiora, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4476" xml:space="preserve">cultiora red-
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              dit, quemadmodum mira exemplorum uarietate innoteſcit hoc loco. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4477" xml:space="preserve">{Scandulis robuſteis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4478" xml:space="preserve">ſtramentis.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4479" xml:space="preserve">}
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              Philander. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4480" xml:space="preserve">ſcandulis ideſtrobore aſſulatim ſecto. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4481" xml:space="preserve">Sunt autem ſcandulæ tabellæ uicem tegularum præſtantes,
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              quibus contectam fuiſſe Romam annis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4482" xml:space="preserve">470. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4483" xml:space="preserve">Author eſt Cornelius nepos apud Plin. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4484" xml:space="preserve">lib. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4485" xml:space="preserve">16. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4486" xml:space="preserve">cap. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4487" xml:space="preserve">10. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4488" xml:space="preserve">Vidi
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              ego huiuſmodi tabellis tectas domos in Gallia. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4489" xml:space="preserve">Iſidorus putatnomen eſſe ſortitas a ſcindendo, ſed cur non a
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              ſcandendo, qui enim uidit, qua ratione, alia ſuper aliam imponitur, ſcandere alia ſuper aliam ſquamarum mo
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              ſcandendo, qui enim uidit, quartione aliaſuper aliam imponitur, ſcandere aliaſuper aliam ſquamarum mo
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              re gradatim cognouit, ſiguntur autem ligneis clauis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4490" xml:space="preserve">Sunt ueteres quidam codices, ut notat Hermolaus, qui
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              locum Plinij ſupracitatum legant boc modo. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4491" xml:space="preserve">Scandulam non conſpectam fuiſſe Romæ annis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4492" xml:space="preserve">reliqua. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4493" xml:space="preserve">In-
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              fra autem ſcandulas fiſſiles dixit Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4494" xml:space="preserve">ſed hæc alijs. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4495" xml:space="preserve">{Schidijs.</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4496" xml:space="preserve">} Aſſulalibro duodecimo Cap. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4497" xml:space="preserve">23. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4498" xml:space="preserve">Hermo-
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              laus in Plin. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4499" xml:space="preserve">utitur & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4500" xml:space="preserve">Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4501" xml:space="preserve">Sed pro fragmentis quæ marmor arij ex operibus deijciunt. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4502" xml:space="preserve">ſciros a Græcis appel-
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              latur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4503" xml:space="preserve">Eligno aut ſchidia idem author appellat, ſicuti Epiſchidion pro cuneo. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4504" xml:space="preserve">id quoque a Græcis tractum.
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4505" xml:space="preserve">In castig ationibus idem. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4506" xml:space="preserve">Aſſula inquit, id quod Græce Schindalmos uocatur a Dioſcoride in hac deſcriptio-
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              ne calami, unde aſſulatim idem fere quod minutatim Plautus in Captiuis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4507" xml:space="preserve">Menæchmis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4508" xml:space="preserve">{Apud natio-
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              nem Colchorũ in Ponto} Paulatim ad meliores modos deducit, nam & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4509" xml:space="preserve">perpẽdiculo uſam fuiſſe nationem Col-
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              chorum dicit, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4510" xml:space="preserve">in Pyramidis formam tecta eduxiſſe teſtatur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4511" xml:space="preserve">politiori ædificandi modo uſam.</s>
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                <emph style="sc">Phryges</emph>
              uero qui campeſtribus locis ſunt habitantes propter inopiam ſyluarum, egentes ma-
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              teria eligunt tumulos naturales, eosq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4514" xml:space="preserve">medios ſoſſura exinanientes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4515" xml:space="preserve">itinera perfodientes, dilatant
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              ſpatia quantum natura loci patitur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4516" xml:space="preserve">Inſuperautem ſtipites inter ſe religantes metas effciunt, quas arun
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              dinibus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4517" xml:space="preserve">ſtramentis tegentes exaggerant ſupra habitationes maximos grumos e terra: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4518" xml:space="preserve">ita hyemes
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              calidiſsimas, æſtates frigidiſsimas efficiunt tectorum ratione.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4520" xml:space="preserve">Vidiego huiuſmodimorem in Germania quibuſdam in locis: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4521" xml:space="preserve">non enim factæ, ſed natæ uidentur caſæ. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4522" xml:space="preserve">Gru-
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              mus autem eſt congeſtitiæ terræ globus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4523" xml:space="preserve">Multis autem exemplis utitur, ut ad uſus uarios fabricandi perue-
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              niat; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4524" xml:space="preserve">nam ubi quid natura poſtulat declarauit, ad id tranſit, quod uſus requirit, ut tandem ad artis opus
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              deueniat. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4525" xml:space="preserve">ſequitur ergo.</s>
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                <emph style="sc">Non</emph>
              nulli ex ulua paluſtri componunt tuguria tecta. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4528" xml:space="preserve">Apud cæteras quoque gentes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4529" xml:space="preserve">nonnulla
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              loca pari, ſimiliq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4530" xml:space="preserve">ratione caſarum perficiuntur conſtituriones. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4531" xml:space="preserve">Non minus etiam Maſsilię animad-
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.081-05" xlink:href="note-514.01.081-05a" xml:space="preserve">50</note>
              uertere poſſumus ſine tegulis ſubacta cum paleis terra tecta. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4532" xml:space="preserve">Athenis Areopagi antiquitatis exemplar
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              ad hoc tempus lato tectum. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4533" xml:space="preserve">item in capitolio commonefacere poteſt, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4534" xml:space="preserve">ſignificare mores uetuſtatis
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              Romuli caſa in arce ſacrorum ſtamentis tecta.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s4536" xml:space="preserve">In omnibus ferè Vitruuianis exemplis tectorum potius, quàm parietum uſus exponitur, nec ab re quidem
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              tecto enim inducto, ratio finis, ad quem domus ædificatur, apparet, nulla enim alia de cauſa ædes fiunt, mſi
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              ut a Sole, imbribus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4537" xml:space="preserve">tempeſtatibus tuti, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4538" xml:space="preserve">tecti ſimus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4539" xml:space="preserve">Vnde factum eſt, ut Philandro quoque placuerit,
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              uniuerſam ferè tectorum rationem breuiter explicare, his uerbis. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4540" xml:space="preserve">Requiret aliquis ſemel uniuerſam ferè te-
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              gendorum tectorumrationem, quæ aut fuerit, aut nunc in uſu est, explicari. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4541" xml:space="preserve">Quarenon ab re hic uiſum eſt
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              ſubiungere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4542" xml:space="preserve">Tecta tegi animaduertimus ex Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4543" xml:space="preserve">arundinibus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4544" xml:space="preserve">fronde (quod primis hominibus attribuit)
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              ſubactacum paleis terra ( ut Maſſilienſes, ) ſtramentis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4545" xml:space="preserve">ſcandulis ( ut Romani, ) fronde & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s4546" xml:space="preserve">luto, ut natio
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.081-06" xlink:href="note-514.01.081-06a" xml:space="preserve">60</note>
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