Extra autem disponantur porticus tres, una ex peristylo exeuntibus, duae dextra atque sinistra stadiatae, ex quibus una quae spectaverit ad septentrionem, perficiatur duplex amplissima latitudine, altera simplex, ita facta, uti in partibus, quae fuerint circa parietes et quae erit ad columnas, margines habeant uti semitas non minus pedum denum mediumque excavatum, uti gradus sint in descensu marginibus sesquipedem ad planitiem, quae planities sit non minus pedes xii; ita qui vestiti ambulaverint circum in marginibus, non inpedientur ab unctis se exercentibus.
Outside the palaestra three colonnades are to be arranged; the first, as you go out of the peristyle; right and left of this, two colonnades with running tracks. Of these three the one which has a north aspect, is to be built double and very wide; the others are to be single. On the sides which adjoin the walls and those which adjoin the columns, they are to have borders ten feet wide to serve as paths. The middle part is to be excavated with steps down from the paths to the level track a foot and a half below, and the track is to be not less than 12 feet wide. Thus persons who walk about on the paths in their clothes will not be disturbed by the athletes who use oil.
final_alignments\Vitruvius_Architecture_Book_5.json