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          <head xml:id="echoid-head5" xml:space="preserve">GEORGIVS MACHAEROPIOEVS
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          Typographus ad lectorem.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1" xml:space="preserve">TAMETSI EX VETVSTIS
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            ſcriptoribus alius alio & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2" xml:space="preserve">utilior eſt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3" xml:space="preserve">am-
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            pliori laude dignus: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4" xml:space="preserve">cum tamẽ nemo ſit qui
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            non mereatur legi, nullus eorum prorſus, in
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            tanta præſertim paucitate, negligendus uide
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            tur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5" xml:space="preserve">Neid antiquitati modo dandũ eſſe arbitror: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s6" xml:space="preserve">ſed quia
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            nullus illis melioribus ſeculis in publicũ prodire audebat,
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            qui non aliquid utilitatis afferret ſuo labore. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s7" xml:space="preserve">Idipſum etiam
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            de argumentis, in quibus uerſati ſunt, ſentiendum eſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s8" xml:space="preserve">Non
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            enim res ullas ſolebant tractandas ſuſcipere, niſi quas intel-
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            ligere eſſet operęprecium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9" xml:space="preserve">Et tamen uidemus quoſdam uete
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            rum, etiam qui ſunt ex optima nota, uel contem ni omnino,
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            uel in paucorum bibliothecis deliteſcere: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10" xml:space="preserve">a maiore autem ſtu
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            dioſorum parte nun̈ attingi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11" xml:space="preserve">In eo numero eſt hic. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12" xml:space="preserve">M. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s13" xml:space="preserve">Vi-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0007-01" xlink:href="note-0007-01a" xml:space="preserve">M. Vitiuuius.</note>
            truuius, cuius cum opus de Architectura egregium ſatean-
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            tur omnes, lectu inprimis dignum, præteritur tamen ſere
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            ab omnibus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s14" xml:space="preserve">Nomen quidem ipſum eſt celebre: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s15" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s16" xml:space="preserve">pauciſſi-
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            miſunt, uel ex mediocriter doctis, qui Vitruuium de Archi
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            tectura ſcripſiſſe ignorent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s17" xml:space="preserve">At uix centeſimus quiſ interea
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            nouit, quidliber contineat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s18" xml:space="preserve">Hoc non ideo accidit, uel quia
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            author malus ſit autineptus, uel quia genus argumẽti ſit co-
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            gnitu inutile: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s19" xml:space="preserve">ſed quia nimis ſunt delicati, qui literarum ſtu-
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            dia hodie ſectantur. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s20" xml:space="preserve">Eligunt enim aut leuiora ſcripta, aut a-
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            mœniora, ex quibus delectationem ſine magno labore ca-
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            piant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s21" xml:space="preserve">Ergo quia hic Vitruuij liber nonnihil eſſe obſcurus
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            creditur: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s22" xml:space="preserve">propter difficultatẽ ab eius lectione ut plurimum
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            abhorrent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s23" xml:space="preserve">Nam ſcriptorem ipſum non poſſunt, tan̈ mi-
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            nusidoneum, repudiare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s24" xml:space="preserve">Primum ea ętate uixit, et opus hoc
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0007-02" xlink:href="note-0007-02a" xml:space="preserve">Aetas.</note>
            edidit, quo uera ſolida eruditio florebat, aut certe adhuc ui
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            gebat. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s25" xml:space="preserve">Et ſemper ab eruditis hominibus, quibus iudicandi
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            authoritas communi omnium conſenſu tribuitur, habitus
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            eſt bonus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">non uulgaris precij ſcriptor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">Faten dum eſt certe,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0007-03" xlink:href="note-0007-03a" xml:space="preserve">Stylus.</note>
            quod resipſa declarat, non adeo bene expolitã habere dictio
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            nẽ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s28" xml:space="preserve">Latine enim loquitur magis, ̈ ſplendide aut eloquẽter.</s>
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