SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

On Architecture · De architectura

Vitruvius

Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

The only architectural treatise to survive from antiquity: firmness, usefulness and beauty, temples and the proportions of the human body, water, sundials and machines.

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  • Latin: ed. Fritz Krohn, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, phi1056.phi001, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Morris Hicky Morgan, from the Perseus Digital Library (phi1056.phi001.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 22

  1. 1Book I · preface, chapters 1–4
  2. 2Book I · chapters 4–7
  3. 3Book II · preface, chapters 1–5
  4. 4Book II · chapters 5–8
  5. 5Book II · chapters 8–10
  6. 6Book III · preface, chapters 1–3
  7. 7Book III · chapters 3–5
  8. 8Book IV · preface, chapters 1–3
  9. 9Book IV · chapters 3–9
  10. 10Book V · preface, chapters 1–6
  11. 11Book V · chapters 6–12
  12. 12Book VI · preface, chapters 1–3
  13. 13Book VI · chapters 3–8
  14. 14Book VII · preface, chapters 1–3
  15. 15Book VII · chapters 3–14
  16. 16Book VIII · preface, chapters 1–3
  17. 17Book VIII · chapters 3–6
  18. 18Book IX · preface, chapters 1–2
  19. 19Book IX · chapters 3–8
  20. 20Book X · preface, chapters 1–4
  21. 21Book X · chapters 4–11
  22. 22Book X · chapters 11–16