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This evening we're reading the 10 books on architecture by Vatruvius, translated by Morris Hickey Morgan, PhD, LLC, late professor of classical

philology at Harvard University, with illustrations and original designs prepared

under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren A.M. and Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture at Harvard University.

Copyright 1914.

Let's begin.

Preface

During the last years of his life,

Professor Morgan had devoted much time and energy to the preparation of a translation

of Vitruvius, which he proposed to supplement with a revised text, illustrations, and notes.

He had completed the translation with the exception of the last four chapters of the 10th

book and had discussed with Professor Warren the illustrator. the arranged or completed, though many of them were outlined in the manuscript, were the intention to insert

them indicated. The several books of the translation, so far as it was completed, had been read to a little group of friends, consisting of Professor

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