# On Architecture 9.5.3

Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, urn:cts:latinLit:phi1056.phi001.perseus-lat2, Book 9, Chapter 5. Latin.

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Apud eius vero basim canis parvo intervallo insequens leporem. arieti et piscibus cetus est subiectus, a cuius crista ordinate utrisque piscibus disposita est tenuis fusio stellarum, quae graece vocitantur ἁρπεδόναι . magnoque intervallo introrsus pressus nodus serentium attingit summam ceti cristam . per speciem stellarum flumen profluit, initium fontis capiens a laevo pede Orionis. quae vero ab aquario fundi memoratur aqua, profluit inter piscis austrini caput et caudam ceti.

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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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