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but this metaphorical sense is common enough in republican writers; 

 cf. Cic. Parad. 5, 39, queni nutum locwpletis orbi senis non observat; 

 Q. F. 1, 1, 22, tot urbes tot civitates unius kominis nutum intuentur. 

 The verb specto, though common in Vitruvius, is found only here in 

 this particular sense but it maybe paralleled from Cicero; ef. Verr. 

 2, 33, cum index . . . voluntatem spectaret eius, etc.; Q. F. 1, 1, 35, 

 non legem spectare censoriam; RA. 22, omnes in unum spectent. 



populusque Romanus et senatus: for this unusual order ef. Cic. Fam. 

 15, 2, 4 ; Sail. Jug. 41, 2, and Weissenborn on Liv. 7, 31, 10. Vitruvius 

 has elsewhere the usual order (20, 17; 176, 17). 



cogitationibus: "conceptions," so in Vitr. 34, 9; 103, 1; 161, 3; 

 216, 24. Somewhat similarly "ideas," 31, 7 and 23; 36, 9; 156, 1; 

 "notions," 103, 20; "devices," 137, 12; 138,9; 269,9; other shades 

 of meaning are "consideration," 215, 20; "reflection," 1, 7; 12, 4 and 

 5; "deliberation," 15, 2; "power of thought," 36, 4; 132, 11; and 

 in the phrase eogitatio scripturae, 263, 9, like our "thread of the dis- 

 course." On Vitruvius's use of the plural of this and other abstracts 

 I have written elsewhere. 1? 



6. tantis oceupationibus : "in view of your serious employments." 

 The phrase may be either an ablative absolute (so with Rose's punctu- 

 ation) or a dat. incommodi. With most commentators I take oceupa- 

 tionibus as referring to Augustus, though Schneider refers it to 

 Vitruvius. 



7. de architectura scripta et magnis cogitationibus explicata: "my 

 writings and long-considered ideas on architecture," or literally "things 

 written and set forth with long reflection." For eogitatio in this sense, 

 cf. 12, 5, eogitatio est cura, studii plena et industriae vigilantiaeque, 

 effectus propositi cum voluptate. For magnis, "great/' in the sense of 

 "much," "long" (not "grand" or "important"), cf. 214, 7, quod 

 magno labore fabri normam faeientes perducere possunt, "the result 

 which carpenters reach very laboriously with their squares." This 

 is like the vulgar use shown in Bell. Hisp. 12, magnum tempus con- 

 sumpserunt; cf. Justin, 11, 10, 14, magno post tempore (see Schmalz, 

 Antibarbarus s. v. magnus). Somewhat similar are magno negotio 

 in Caes. B. G. 5, 11, 2 (cf. Bell. Alex. 8), and magna industria, Sail. 

 Hist. 4, 2 M. The phrase de architectura . . . explicata does not neces- 

 sarily signify that Vitruvius's book was finished before the time indi- 

 dicated in the next sentence, and that it was merely slightly revised 

 before being dedicated to his patron and published. 18 If there is any 



!7 Language of Vitruvius (cited above in Note 5), p. 473. 

 18 This is the theory of Krohn, Berl. Phil. Woch., 17, 773 f. (1S97), and 

 Dietrich, Quaestionum Vitr. Specimen, answered by Degering, Berl. Phil. 



