Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Rivers, Years, Cities

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section,

• In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Order, Years

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter I, Section 6), circa 15 BC.

• Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fall, Suffering, Essentials

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book VII. Introduction, Sec. 1, 15BC.

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