Full text: Vitruvius: De architectura libri decem ad Caesarem Augustum, omnibus omnium editionibus longè emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis

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6. FRANCISCO VA-
LESIO REGI POTEN-

TISSIMO ET CHRISTIA-
NISSIMO GVLIELMVS
PHILANDER CA-
STILLIO-
NIVS

VICTORIAM.

Fvisse temp{us}, cùm in mon-
tib{us} ac ſyluis disperſi dißipa-
ti\’ homines bestiarum more
vagarentur, & ſibi victu fe-
rino vitam propagarent. Rex
inuictiß. legim{us}: nondum ij
prudentium conſilijs, aut di-
ſertorum or atione deliniti, à
fera agresti\’ vita ad huma-
num hunc auilem\’ cultum
deducti, ſe oppidis mœnib{us}\’ ſepſerant. Et principio quidem, cùm
id tantum agerent vt ſe ſua\’ ab aduerſis tempestatib{us} tueren-
tur, vt contra ſolis ardores tuta diffugia haberent, cœperunt aliqui
è frondib{us} tecta facere, ſpeluncas alij fodere: qui ingenio præſta-
bant, furcis erectis, & intertextis virgultis luto parietes inducere. ea fuerunt ædificatoriæ rei incunabula. Proximè qui ſequuti
ſunt, ijs initijs non contenti, non modò, quæ ad ſalutem eſſent ne-
ceſſaria, curauerunt, ſed eorum quæ ad expeditas quaſ, pro in-
nata tamen frugalitate, commoditates aſſequendas conferrent,

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