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He seems more likely to have drawn his knowledge from Latin sources, 

 but his style is appreciably influenced by Greek. Among these influ- 

 ences we will mention his preference for non minus (oiSkv fjo-crov) instead 

 of item; cf. 103, 24; 187, 12; 218, 7, etc. Further, the superfluous 

 use of etiam (/cat) in comparisons, as 216,4: aequo pondere quo etiam 

 fuerat corona. Equally the striking omission of the demonstrative pro- 

 noun before the relative, as 30, 6 : aedibus saci-is quorum deorum maxime 

 in tutela civitas videtur esse, and 30, 1 1 : Herculi in quibus civitatibus non 

 sunt gymnasia ; and the still more striking attraction of the relative in 

 34, 27: spatio relicto quanto arborum longitadines patiuntur.' — This 

 paragraph does not seem quite apropos of the argument, for it merely 

 suggests Greek sources for certain usages in Vitruvius without indicating 

 that they are found in late Latin. I am not aware that non minus in 

 the sense of item is so found. It appears to be like nee minus as used 

 in Varro E. B. 1, 13, 3 ; 3, 1, 6 ; Propertius 1, 3, 5.30 The ' superfluous 

 etiam (/«u ) ' calls for no further comment here ; and for the substan- 

 tive standing in the relative clause without a demonstrative in the 

 main clause, as well as for the attraction of the relative, see Schmalz's 

 Lat. Gramm., 3 pp. 372 and 373. These usages are not evidence of late 

 authorship. 



Neither is there such evidence in the following paragraph : ' In the 

 Syntax of Vitruvius, one of the things that attract our attention is his 

 way of expressing measures. He often uses the regular construction 

 witli the accusative, as latitudine maior quam pedes xx ; but he equally 

 employs the genitive, a construction which also appears in more ancient 

 authors, as Varro ap. Pliny N. H. 36, 92 : pyramides . . . imae latae 

 pedum quinum septuagenum, altae centenum quinquagenum ; Columella 2, 

 10,26: areas latas pedum denum, Ion gas pedum quinquagenum facito ; 



theory of a common source for both in Agesistratus (whom, however, Rose 2 has 

 indicated for Vitruvius, 275, 1G). How unsuccessful Ussing is in this argument 

 has been shown by Schmidt {Bursian's Jahresbericht, 108, 1901, p. 120). In 

 another part of Ussing's book (p. 28) there is a very just observation which he 

 would have done well to bear in mind throughout : ' As if it were possible to 

 write about the very same things without occasionally using the same words ; 

 or as if there must not necessarily be found a similarity in those who proceeded 

 from the same school, and hail drawn their knowledge from the same book.' A 

 principle of common sense which 'source-hunters' often ignore! 



30 Non minus in this sense is found more than thirty times in Vitruvius; besides 

 he has non minus etiam nine times (cf. nee non etiam, Varro R. R. 1, 1, 6; 2, 10, 9; 

 3, AG, 20; and Schmalz, Lat. Gramm. 3 p. 851, on such pleonasms in uncultivated 

 style). 



