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VITRUVIUS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE THEATRE. 355 extmgiiitur incei-ta verborum significatione. Eesonantes vero, in quibus, cum in soliclo tactu percussa resiliat, imagines exj^rimendo novissimos casus duplices faciunt auditu. Item consonantes sunt, in quibus ab imis auxiliata, cum incremento scandens, ingreditur ad aures diserta verbo- rum claritate. Ita si in locorum electione fuerit, diligens animadversio, emendatus erit prudentia ad utilitatem in theatris vocis effectus. Formarum autem descriptiones inter se discriminibus his erunt notatas, uti quae ex quadratis designantur, Grsecoiiim liabeant usus, Latinae paribiLS lat^ribus trigonorum. Ita his praBScriptionibus qui rohierit uti, emendatas efficiet theatrorum perfectiones. ■23—2