This book does not show of what architecture is composed, but treats of the origin of the building art, how it was fostered, and how it made progress… - Vitruvius

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.