under the command – Latin Translation – Keybot Dictionary

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6. Again; a small number of Lacedæmonians, under the command of Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, overthrew the prodigious army of the Persians at the battle of Platea. After a triumphal exhibition of the spoil and booty, the proceeds of the valour and devotion of the victors were applied by the government in the erection of the Persian portico; and, as an appropriate monument of the victory, and a trophy for the admiration of posterity, its roof was supported by statues of the barbarians, in their magnificent costume; indicating, at the same time the merited contempt due to their haughty projects, intimidating their enemies by fear of their courage, and acting as a stimulus to their fellow countrymen to be always in readiness for the defence of the nation.
4. quae cur ita sint haec sunt causae. litteras architectum scire oportet, uti commentariis memoriam firmiorem efficere possit. deinde graphidos scientiam habere, quo facilius exemplaribus pictis quam velit operis speciem deformare valeat. geometria autem plura praesidia praestate architecturae, et primum ea euthygrammi et circini tradit usum, e quo maxime facilius aedificiorum in areis expediuntur descriptiones normarumque et librationum et linearum directiones. item per opticen in aedificiis ab certis regionibus caeli lumina recte ducuntur. per arithmeticen vero sumptus aedificiorum consummantur, mensurarum rationes explicantur, difficilesque symmetriarum quaestiones geometricis rationibus et methodis inveniuntur.