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The Ten Books on Architecture

Chapter 203: FOOTNOTES:
By Vitruvius Pollio
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A comprehensive technical manual that sets out fundamental architectural principles—order, arrangement, eurythmy, symmetry, propriety, and economy—and shows how to apply them to plans, elevations, and perspective. It explains the classical orders and their appropriate uses, derives proportions from modules and human measures, and offers practical guidance on site selection, orientation, materials, construction techniques, acoustics, water supply, machinery, and measurements. The work combines theoretical rules with concrete examples and design prescriptions for temples, public buildings, and private dwellings.

 

 

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Reading aeque tantam as in new Rose. Codd. sextantem; Schn. quadrantem.

[2] Codd. altitudo.

[3] That is: two metopes with a triglyph between them, and half of the triglyph on either side.

[4] Codd. duae.

[5] 1 Codd. quarto.

[6] Codd. CC. & L.

[7] The remainder of this section is omitted from the translation as being an obvious interpolation.

[8] Codd. diatessaron, which is impossible, paramese being the concord of the fourth to the chromatic meson, and identical with the chromatic synhemmenon.

[9] Codd. fuerat.

[10] Here something is lost, as also in chapter III, sections 5 and 6.

[11] From this point to the end of section 3 the text is often hopelessly corrupt. The translation follows, approximately, the manuscript reading, but cannot pretend to be exact.

[12] 1 the dots here and in what follows, indicate lacunae in the manuscripts.