# On Architecture 6.8.7

Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, urn:cts:latinLit:phi1056.phi001.perseus-lat2, Book 6, Chapter 8. Latin.

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Praeterea introrsus contra terrenum coniuncta muro serratim struantur, uti singuli dentes ab muro tantum distent, quanta altitudo futura erit substructionis; crassitudines autem habeant dentium structurae uti muri. item in extremis angulis cum recessum fuerit ab interiore angulo spatio altitudinis substructionis, in utramque partem signetur, et ab his signis diagonios structura conlocetur, et ab ea media altera coniuncta cum angulo muri. ita dentes et diagonioe structurae non patientur tota vi premere murum, sed dissipabunt retinendo impetum congestionis.

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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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