# On Architecture 9.1.3

Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, urn:cts:latinLit:phi1056.phi001.perseus-lat2, Book 9, Chapter 1. Latin.

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His natura dispositis ita, uti septentrionali parte a terra excelsius habeat altitudinem centrum, in meridiana autem parte in inferioribus locis subiectum a terra obscuretur, tunc etiam per medium transversa et inclinata in meridiem lata zona XII signis est conformata. eorum species stellis dispositis XII partibus peraequatis exprimit depictam ab natura figurationem. itaque lucentia cum mundo reliquisque sideribus ornatu circum terram mareque pervolantia cursus perficiunt ad caeli rotunditatem.

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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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