Full text: Vitruvius: The architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio

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vius mentioned in his first proem; and whose name the coppit 
very of Herculaneum, he says, upon being let down into the theatre, 
have written P. Numidius, and sometimes Numidicus, or Mim¬ 
he observed the degrees to be covered with wood, appearing like a 
dius; all which variations may have arisen from the incorrect forma- 
great wooden staircase —An inscription still remaining over the 
tion of the letters in the old manuscripts. 
orchestra door of this theatre, records P. Numisius as the architect.
	        
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