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seems improbable tbat anybody who thinks that Vitruvius is like the late 

 Latin authors, can have actually read him through with much care. 

 They, whatever their faults of grammar and style, are smooth and easy 

 reading by comparison with him. He has all the marks of one unused 

 to composition, to whom writing is a painful task. A forgery or a late 

 compilation of an earlier work would presumably proceed from a hand 

 used to literary performances. 



