The Ten Books on Architecture, 1.2.1

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Of Those Things on Which Architecture Depends

2Architecture depends on fitness (ordinatio) and arrangement (dispositio), the former being called τάξις, in Greek, and the latter διάθεσις; it also depends on proportion, uniformity, consistency, and economy, which the Greeks call οἰκονομία.

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