Vitruvius on Health
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Vitruvius, catalogued under health, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Vitruvius, entry #63810: "From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy."
Attributed to Vitruvius, entry #29771: "Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy."
4 Quotes by Vitruvius on Health
"From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy."
"Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy."
"When the morning breezes blow toward the town at sunrise, if they bring with them mists from marshes and, mingled with the mist, the poisonous breath of the creatures of the marshes to be wafted into the bodies of the inhabitants, they will make the site unhealthy."
"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."