# On Architecture 3.1.1

Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, urn:cts:latinLit:phi1056.phi001.perseus-lat2, Book 3, Chapter 1. Latin.

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Aedium compositio constat ex symmetria, cuius rationem diligentissime architecti tenere debent. ea autem paritur a proportione, quae graece ἀναλογία dicitur. proportio est ratae partis membrorum in omni opere totiusque commodulatio, ex qua ratio efficitur symmetriarum. namque non potest aedis ulla sine symmetria atque proportione rationem habere compositionis, nisi uti hominis bene figurati membrorum habuerit exactam rationem.

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Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, ed. Fritz Krohn. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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