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of music (111, 18). In the other ten passages it refers to buildings, 

 and denotes their dignity or imposing effect (e. g., 72, 22, conservavit 

 auctoritatem totius operis, and cf. 12, 25; 72, 1; 73, 1; 81, 11; 107, 

 26; 154, 17; 161, 15; 162, 4; 175, 5). So Turnebus, Advers. 1195, 

 45, explains our passage by "dignitates et pulchritudiiies." 



non putavi: On this phrase I have already written elsewhere.23 

 Schmalz in a private letter to me compares the Ciceronian use of 

 nego, nolo, veto (Acad. 2, 121 ; Mur. 59 ; Off. 1, 30\ where the negative 

 idea does not really belong to the main verb. 



15. de his rebus ea: "my writings on this theme." Here ea refers 

 to scripta et explicata in line 7, though the identity should not be too 

 closely pressed; nor should his rebus be thought of as referring only 

 to publicorum aedificiorum, since it includes also the ideas expressed 

 in opportunitate and egregias auctoritates. Hence it must be rendered 

 generally, as I have suggested in the phrase "this theme." 



ideo quod : For this phrase used at the beginning of a sentence like 

 a particle of inference, cf. Vitr. 88, 21. I do not know any other 

 exact parallel. 



16. parenti tuo: i. e. Julius Caesar, here and two lines below, called 

 the parens of the person to whom Vitruvius writes, while in 203, 13, the 

 word pater 24 i s used of him. But nothing is to be argued seriously 

 from the different words,25 since fortunately Augustus himself in the 

 Monumentum Ancyranum calls his adopted father both parens (1, 10) 

 and pater (2, 24; 3, 7; 4, 14). It may be convenient to assemble here 

 the other passages in which Vitruvius refers to Julius Caesar. There 

 are two of them. In one he calls him divus Caesar (59, 18) ; four lines 

 further imperator (59, 22), and a little below simply Caesar (60, 4). 

 In that passage he is relating an anecdote about a campaign in the 

 Alps. In the other passage, where he is giving examples of pycnostyle 

 temples, we find the clause quemadmodum est divi Iulii et in Caesaris 

 foro Veneris (70, 18). Both these passages, therefore, like the words 

 which follow in the preface which we are studying, show that Vitruvius 



23 Language of Vitruvius, p. 487. 



24 Retaining, as I think we must, the reading patre Caesare (so Mortet, 

 Rev. Arch., 41, 69 (1902); Degering, Berl. Phil. Woch., 27, 1468 (1907)), 

 instead of Rose's emendation patre Caesari. The word patre is inserted here 

 by Vitruvius for fear that readers should think he meant the living Caesar 

 (Augustus); so Cicero, Phil., 5, 49, utinam C. Caesari, patri dico, contigisset, 

 etc. ; ib. 39, Pampeio enim patre. 



25 Though Degering (1. c), arguing against Mortet's hypothesis, suggests 

 that parens is a more appropriate term for the adoptive father and uncle of 

 Augustus than for the actual father of Titus. 



