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                    VITRUVIUS

         THE TEN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

                   TRANSLATED BY
         MORRIS HICKY MORGAN, PH.D., LL.D.
        LATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
                IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

        WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND ORIGINAL DESIGNS
           PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
            HERBERT LANGFORD WARREN, A.M.
     NELSON ROBINSON JR. PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE
                IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
                     CAMBRIDGE
              HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
              LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
              OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
                       1914
        COPYRIGHT, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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PREFACE


During the last years of his life, Professor Morgan had devoted much
time and energy to the preparation of a translation of Vitruvius, 