The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio : in ten books (1826)
Vitruvius Pollio, Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 · London : Priestley and Weale · leaf 142
the gutter. But the interme-diate ones must be solid, so that the water from the tiles,which is collected in the gutter, may not be carried off inthe intercolumniations, and fall on those passing. Thoseover the columns will appear to vomit forth streams ofwater from their mouths. In this book I… … ;-***^ INTRODUCTION. Finding, O Emperor, that many persons have left usprecepts in Architecture, and volumes of comment-aries thereon, not systematically arranged, but meregeneral principles, little more indeed than scatteredhints, I considered it a worthy and useful task, first, togive a general…
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