Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you, because I saw that you have built and are now building extensively, and that in future also you will take care that our public and private buildings shall be worthy to go down to posterity by the side of your other splendid achievements.


Preface, Sec. 3 (dedication to Imperator Caesar) - De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC) - Book I

Vitruvius Quotes

Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you,...

Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you,...

Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you,...

Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you,...