(1st century BC)
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architect and military engineer who had served both Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus. We are grateful to him for his treatise De Architectura, 10 books on architecture and engineering. He drew from his own experience and that of other architects to discuss townplanning, building materials, designs for temples, civic and private structures, pavement techniques, water supply, geometry, astronomy, and machinery, both civil and military.
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Source: Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1970
J.Jahnige June 1999
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