Full text: Vitruvius: The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio in ten books

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CHAPTER II. 
OF THE TREASURY, PRISON, AND CURIA. 
THE treasury, prison, and curia are to adjoin the forum, 
to which their dimensions are to be proportionate. First 
of the curia, which must be suitable to the importance of 
the community or state. If square, its height is to be 
once and a half its width ; but if oblong, the length and 
width must be added together, and one-half of their sum 
assigned for the height up to the lacunaria. The walls, 
moreover, at half their height, are to have cornices run 
round them of wood or plaster. For if such be not pro- 
vided, the voices of the disputants meeting with no check 
in their ascent, will not be intelligible to the audience. 
But when the walls are encircled round with cornices, 
the voice, being thereby impeded, will reach the ear be- 
fore its ascent and dissipation in the air. 
CHAPTER III. 
OF THE THEATRE, AND OF ITS HEALTHY SITUATION. 
WHEN the forum is placed, a spot as healthy as possible 
is to be chosen for the theatre, for the exhibition of 
games on the festival days of the immortal gods, ac- 
cording to the instructions given in the first book re- 
specting the healthy disposition of the walls of a city. 
For the spectators, with their wives and children, de- 
lighted with the entertainment, sit out the whole of the 
games, and the pores of their bodies being opened by 
the pleasure they enjoy, are easily affected by the air, 
which, if it blows from marshy or other noisome places,
	        
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