An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.