LIFE OF VITRUVIUS. 
THE materials for a life of Vitruvius are only to be 
found in his own Treatise. Among the antient 
authors he is merely mentioned by Pliny, as one 
of those writers from whom he compiled; and 
by Frontinus, in his Treatise on Aqueducts, as 
the first who introduced the Quinarian measure. 
Though practising in Rome, and in the service of 
the emperors, living in Rome, and writing the sub¬ 
joined work in that city, there appears nothing that 
can lead us to assert that he was a native of the 
place. Maffei, a Veronese, strove to prove the au¬ 
thor his countryman, and in corroboration adduced 
an inscription which existed on a triumphal arch 
in Verona as hereunder; 
L. VITRUVIUS L. L. CERDO 
ARCHITECTUS. 
Had this arch, however, been built by our Author, it 
would not prove him a native of the city, not look¬ 
ing to the difference in the agnomen, a circum¬ 
stance which Alciati attempted to reconcile, by 
supposing that of Pollio to be a corruption of Pel¬ 
lio, and that then it would be synonymous with