# On Architecture 8.2

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

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Animadvertimus vero non solum nascentia ex his esse procreata, sed etiam res omnes non ali sine eorum potestate neque crescere nec tueri. namque corpora sine spiritus redundantia non possunt habere vitam, nisi aer influens cum incremento fecerit auctus et remissiones continenter. caloris vero si non fuerit in corpore iusta comparatio, non erit spiritus animalis neque erectio firma, cibique vires non poterunt habere coctionis temperaturam. item si non terrestri cibo membra corporis alantur, deficient et ita a terreni principii mixtione erunt deserta.

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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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