Talk:Defence of Korcula (part two)

Antonii Rosanei Corcyrae Melenae Opus

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In medio altiores sunt montes, et quasi dorsum totius insulae, medietas excrescit extremitates hinc, et inde subsidunt, litora tortuosa multas valles, malefidasque stationes, et portus, et tutos, et magnos intus, et exterius efficiunt. Caput eius ad Eurum Veru dicitur, quoniam protenditur acutum spatio ulteriori per mille passuum, postea dilatatur. Sed ad Zephirum est bifidum, et vallem maximam Sancti Joannis de Gradina quinquaginta stadiorum complectitur. Aquarum dulcium inopiam pluvialibus solatur; fons tamen procul ab eadem Vela Luka distat triginta stadiis in campo magno pagi Blato, qui multoties tantis scaturire solet aquis, ut stagnum ex campo fiat, quod et pago nomen indidit. Blato enim aquae non decrescere. Cum autem exsiccatae sunt, planities mille et quingentos passus longa, et sex stadia lata remanet huberima, ut pote cujus labra proscissa, et seminata, dum aqua decrescit centesimum reddidere fructum. Nascitur eo in campo uliginosa herba, qua si nimium vescantur armenta adeo pinguescunt, ut morbo correpta crepent, neque carnes, neque pelles ullo usui propter morbi non admodum ab epidemiae peste dissimilem. Si universus ille ager coleretur est opinio, quod procul dubio aleret nedum colonos, et incolas sed etiam vicinos. Veruntamen periti profundiorem eum superficie maris testantur, nec posse aquam per canalia in mare deduci perfractis quoque montibus interpositis astruunt. Incolarum vero ignavia nullo pacto excusari potest, quamvis enim raro ager ille inundet, nunquam tamen aratur vel colitur praeterquam pars minima ab orientali latere, ex qua maximos proventus colligere solent. Insula ferax vini thedae, et picis duas artes potissimum exercet scilicet carpentariorum ad fabricandas naves, et latomorum. Sita est in Illyrico e regione Gargani lato centum millibus passuum interjacente pelago, in quo a noto Melita ab austro Augusta cum aliquibus scopulis per stadia circiter sexaginta ab Occidente Equinoctiali Issa aestivali vero Pharus per triginta millia passuum procul ab ejus litore proximos excipiunt fluctus. A septentrione autem esset tractus Narentanus, sed interjacet Promontorium Sabioncelli nomine Oeni apud Ptholomaeum notatum, quod continenti juxta Narentani fluminis hostia junctum, et aliquantum ad Epidaurinas insulas in dexteram porrectum mox in sinistram Pharum versus longe ampliori spatio deflectens efficit Isthmum quatuor stadiorum, in quo est civitas Stagni inter duo maria, quorum orientale prospicit Ragusium occidentale vergit in Pharum, et Brachiam. Duo quoque exteriora canalia constituit primum ab oriente cum Melita per totam Insulae extensionem porrectum sexaginta stadiis latum, alterum parte Melenae latitudinis sexdecim stadiorum, quorum etiam dispar est longitudo. Illud enim milia passuum non excedit, hoc duodecim superat, quoniam Corcyra cum per id spatium excurrerit postea deflectit in pelagus tota reliqua sui longitudine, et relinquit Oeni brachium super Pharum se extendentem humili planitie, et Melitense sine scopulis est Cursulense autem tam in introitu, quam in exitu scopulis, et saxis abundat, et propterea periculosum est imperitis praesertim intrantibus. Urbs ab utrisque faucibus circiter quinquaginta stadiis distans, et maximam sumitatem Oeni seu Sabioncelli in septentrione prospiciens in colle quam maenibus, ambitu ovalis formae complectitur situata pene tota mari circumdatur,nisi quod ab austro cum reliqua Insula ponte, et fossa, ac navali conjungitur. Aedificia urbana ex vivo saxo albo ibidem exciso structa cum templo, et turri campanaria in umbilico caeteris superiori propter soli inaequalitatem.

In medio oppidi platea ex polito saxo ante templum, et campanariam turrim strata omnes totius urbis vias aequali spatio dimensas ad se ducit, unde disticon hoc ei optime convenit:

Viculus in medio, denusque hinc inde viarum Ordo cingatur Corzula picta manet.

Et quidem eo tempore locus satis munitus reperiebatur praesertim tormentis. Nam paucis diebus ante bellum motum Raphael Gabrielius a Petro Bragadeno loci rectore optimo missus in legationem Venetiis reportaverat numerum non parvum sclopetorum lancearum, arcuum, sagittarum, et sex colombrinas aeneas emittentes pilas ferreas librarum duodecim. Deinde post bellum jam motum Philippus Roseneus, et ipse orator missus attulerat quatuor petrerias, et duas colombrinas et triginta archibusonorum, et pulveris bombardici copiam, et multa alia tela. Erant et in urbe priora tormenta ferrea, et aenea, praesertim unum, quod papale nominant, quod ponderantem triginta libras ferri pilam jaculatur, et in armamento etiam erant multa alia arma bellica. Maenia tamen vetera, et ruinosa instauratione indigebant, Pugnatorum quoque paucitas dubiam tuitionem reddebat. Sed satis divagati ad institutum redeamus.

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To be higher than they are in the midst of the mountains, and as it were, of the whole of the back of the island, the proportion was increased and augmented the ends of the one side, and the derivative of the sink, make the crooked places the shores of the many valleys and hills, malefidasque stations, and ports, and to a safe position, and the great, the inside, and the exterior is made up. His head is as the spit is the west, it is said, further, that by the space of a thousand miles, it extends a sharp knife, and then is enlarged thereby. But at Zephirum is cracked, and the maximum valley of Saint John of the Gradina fifty miles embraced. Of the waters of the sweet and soothes in a scarcity of rain-water; in the thirty-two miles away, at a distance from the same, however, is distant from the source of the great plain of the district of Blato Vela Luka, who so often is accustomed to such great gush forth the waters, so that the tin on campus, they may be, which was also the name of the district and countries. Blato water is not to decrease. When, however, are dried up, they are, the level of a thousand and a half miles long, and six hundred furlongs wide is the remains huberima, the edges of which, where it stands on broken ground, and had been sown, as long as one hundred times, restored to us the fruit of the water decreases. It is born of him in the plain of wet grass, which if they do, however, eat too much fat in such a herds, to be sick, with a short and shameless jokes, nor of the flesh, nor of any use, for the sake of the curtains of the disease is not so very different from the pestilence, from the epidemiae. If the entire field of cultivation of the opinion that without a doubt much more encouraging tenants and residents but also neighbors. But nevertheless, have skill to bear witness to a deeper him off the face of the sea, the mountains, nor to be able, by the interposition of the construe from the water, breaking through the canal into the sea, brought on my way. The cowardice of the inhabitants, however, can in no way be excused, even though there is rarely any portion of the field will overflow, they will never, however, is plowed or is worshiped, but only of a part of the side of the smallest, from the east, out of which to pick up the increase of the high tides are accustomed to. Thed of the island, and the two skills most troublesome pitch at the carpenters' shipbuilding, and stone-masons. Gargano is located in Illyria, over one hundred miles wide, lies between the ocean, where from the south of Malta, with some reefs in the south of Augusta, about sixty miles west of the summer equinox, Issa Lighthouse in thirty thousands of miles far from the beach will catch the next wave. Out of the north he was in the drawing Narentanus, but lies between them; the Promontory, Sabioncello the name of Owen with Ptolemy, in many words, in the continent, according to the Narentani of the river, the sacrifice of a yoked up and a little to the Epidaurinum islands in the right hand, stretching forward, and subsequently on the left side of the Pharos, the verse with a far larger space with a sagging effects the Isthmus of Corinth is only four furlongs, in which it is the city of his marines between the two seas, of which the West it inclines towards the east the Pharos at stake at Ragusium, and upper arm. There were two kinds of Melita, the exteriors of the trough, and throughout the whole of the Island and the extension of the full meeting and made him the first time with hundred and sixty-two miles away from the east, broad, broad on the other side of the Melen sixteen furlongs, and the length of which, also, for it is unlike. For that is thousands of miles had not exceeds, that of the twelve excel another, when, because of Corfu with the by means of the length of the could digress afterwards turns in the main the whole of the rest of its length of it, and who leaves behind Owen arm over the Pharos itself, reaching a low plain, and of Mileto, without the rocks, it is Cursulense, was as well in the entrance, which at the departure of the rocks, and stones, has in abundance, and for this reason it is dangerous to the inexperienced, especially to those who enter. The jaws of the two, a distance of about fifty miles away from the city, in the north, and, looking out at the hill of the greatest Sabioncello or Owen than been piled piled high, embraces those situated on the forms of oval, almost the whole of the sea, is surrounded by the environment, except it be that the rest of the island with a bridge, from the south, and the trench, and the docks was added. Was hewn in stone edifices of the city, built in the same place with the white of the stone of the temple, from what is living in the city, for the sake of the sun, and the tower of the upper bell in the muscles of the rest of the inequality.