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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 190 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 110 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Metaphysics | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK IV, CHAPTER I: THE ORIGINS OF THE THREE ORDERS, AND THE PROPORTIONS OF THE CORINTHIAN CAPITAL (search)
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Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK VIII, INTRODUCTION (search)
INTRODUCTION 1. AMONG the Seven Sages, Thales of Miletus pronounced for water as the primordial element in all things; Heraclitus, for fire; the priests of the Magi, for water and fire; Euripides, a pupil of Anaxagoras, and called by the Athenians “the philosopher of the stage,” for air and earth. Earth, he held, was impregnated by the rains of heaven and, thus conceiving, brought forth the young of mankind and of all the living creatures in the world; whatever is sprung from her goes back to her again when the compelling force of time brings about a dissolution; and whatever is born of the air returns in the same way to the regions of the sky; nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before. But Pythagoras, Empedocles, Epicharmus, and other physicists and philosophers have set forth that the primordial elements are four in number: air, fire, earth, and water; and that it is from their coherenc