Itaque non est contemnenda Graecorum structura; utuntur e molli caemento polita, sed cum discesserunt a quadrato, ponunt de silice seu lapide duro ordinaria, et ita uti latericia struentes alligant eorum alternis coriis coagmenta, et sic maxime ad aeternitatem firmas perficiunt virtutes.
Therefore the walling of the Greeks is not to be made light of. For they do not employ walling of soft rubble with stucco facing, but when they depart from ashlar, they lay courses of lava or hard stone, and, as with brick buildings, they bind their joints in alternate courses, and so they produce strength firm enough to last.
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