LIFE oF VITRUVIUS. 
Sene enene e eo ene ge e en eneaei en 
ene eng e e en ene in e ne ne el eie 
eac hun beiche ih on en te a n e anin i and . 
e ih eh ehen eheae ean ene e e el n e inie 
nea ahengehe eeheie e n en eo ele on ane neie en elen 
le e ehoese ehe enthon a inen n ih len a in 
hene thich ecould ne dange ron he senene ne pehine ie Vieninerene. 
begepaohiene ne an e i ehe n and inereleie 
hinenane an e e etainh ne aer eros eah e e eniens lin eig edin 
teripeng n e oe ena ehe e eo einin ie nin 
in force. 
agin-Taetus nunbersthetenple d piter Setor vowedly Romndlug and uit he ondil e. 
gelus and dt Regulug mnongthe buidingsthat verebun in tis condagation and Venuin t i i) 
menione dtenpleofthi nane a n eranple, bo he sog it uas n elich mng feuig ar oruiran ehe 
poritof letelse NVov tis portico wesner the Creus Fhaninibs, whereche fie did not reich: whes 
the tenpl of jopiter Staor, voved by Romulns, ves ner the Forun, and mount Palatine uhere the fe 
ragedh and ves wihin the bound of ehe oiginal diy of Romulie, Varo qoed yr lecohius Sruril. 
1.M. C.ie.) mentions a temple of JopierStatorat he Creus Flaminius; and Ploy alo erir, 1.) Ooeiks 
of a temple of tis mame, and oftheportieo of Metellig, s in being when he wrote: hence it folous that 
the tenple mentioned by Viruius vas pobaby not chat elich Tacitus says wes deftoyed by the frein 
Neos regngandtherefor the angunen villot plh. la the hortand tunultous regnso Gabe Ohe. 
and Vielug itis not probable that Viruvins poblihed hs volk: nor cen i e supoled that hewrotete 
Vehaln; or enstenesvuloeage. Viterieg iahis it proen mnentionsthe iderofche enpe. 
whom he addresses, and Vespasian had no sister. 
Therign of T'us foloved neit; and nocdicpanstane thet havemet vich, oren cole, opofesche 
ipotion of his being the emnperor to whom Vitruvius dedeated his wok: on thecontrag, many ct- 
cunstances tem to agre therewith; and it is coufrmed by ochers that ender it probible that it was to no 
succeeding emperor. 
The fit erption of mount Velqvis upon reord hapened in the hat yearof hereign of Tirus. So won¬ 
derfola phenomenon could not be unknovn to any author vho wrote afer that event. Bat Viruvius d. i. 
e. 4.) lays kere ua a radion han seh an event had hafpened in formner inet: a lufient indcetion that he 
Enew of no sich for certeinty, and confquenty that it had not hapened when he wrote thepasage 
Theportico of Metellus, ust before mentioned, Vitruvius speaks ofasin being. Paterculus, who wotein 
tne feign of Tiberius, says (.i. c. xi.) li porico ua faroundeal ey that q Ockauia; and Do (C.lé.) 
relates that al he buidige gf Ofavia wvere defryed by a fre khat hafpened in ihe reign of Titur ; from whene it 
is probable Vitruvius wrote before that fire happened. It is true, Titus is faid to have reftored these build¬ 
ings; but this could scarely be done completely within his fhort reign: it is related that he did not live to 
mmin all the works he had begun, but that they were finiched by Domitan. Even had they been com-