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wrote after the deification of Julius, which took place by decree not 

 long after his death (Plut. Caes. 67; cf. CIL. 1, 026; 9, 2628). 



de eo : The singular eo is used rather loosely here after ea and his 

 rebus, but "that thing" can mean nothing except architecture, so 

 that there is no danger of confusion here any more than in Cic. Att. 

 9, 10, 10, perlegi omnes tuas (litteras) et in eo acquievi. As for the 

 use of causal de, I have defended it against Ussing's strictures in 

 another place. 26 



jueram notus: On this use of jueram with the pf. parte, see Land- 

 graf, Hist. Gramm., Heft 1, 220 ff., who says that it is found ten 

 times in Vitruvius against seven occurrences of the regular formation 

 with eram. 



eius virtutis studiosus: This awkwardness of the dependence of 

 one genetive (eius) upon another (virtutis) is found elsewhere in 

 Vitruvius: cf. a leone transiens in virginem progrediensque ad sinum 

 vestis eius (227, 9); timore eorum jortitudinis efjeetus, "for fear of the 

 effect of their courage " (three genitives ! 5, 7). The expression 

 "devoted to his virtus," though logically correct in Latin, means in 

 idiomatic English, "devoted to him on account of his virtus," and in 

 this way I have rendered it. In cod. S, cod. Estensis,27 and in eight 

 codd. of Marini, as well as in the Venetian edition of 1497, the word 

 erat stands between virtutis and studiosus. If this meant anything, 

 it would mean that Julius Caesar, "was interested in the excellence 

 of architecture " (eius referring to eo, and cf. 64, 15, nostrae scientiae 

 virtutem). But studiosus is resumed just below (2, 2) by idem studium 

 meum, so that the reading erat hardly deserves further attention. 

 The word virtutis in this clause is not to be confined to military valor 

 (as in 1, 2), nor to moral worth, but is used in a much more general 

 sense; hence I have rendered it by "great qualities." 



17. concilium caelestium: cf. Cic. Off. 3, 25, Herculem quern homi- 

 num jama in concilio caelestium collocavit. But as Schneider notes: 

 "satis dextre adulatur Octaviano Vitruvius, dum patrem non a 

 Romanis inter deorum numerum relatum, sed ab ipso deorum con- 

 cilio allectum et dedicatum fuisse ait." Vitruvius uses caelestes as a 

 substantive again in 102, 22 ; cf . Cic. Phil. 4, 10. 



Page 2, 1. imperium parentis in tuam potestatem transtulisset : 

 "transferred your father's power to your hands." Here Mortet 28 has 

 this observation: "La maniere dont Vitruve parle de la translation 



26 Language of Vitruvius, p. 485. 



27 Sec Sola, Riv. d. Biblioteche, 11, 35 ff. (1900). 



28 Rev. Arch., 41, 47 (1902). 







