030 … li altari aspiciano ad oriente et sempre più inferiori siano collocati et epsi simulacri quali sarano in la aede, aciò che li suspicienti la divinitate, quilli che supplicano et sacrificano con dispare altitudine a il decore di ciscuno suo Dio se componeno ... [Vitruvio, De Architectura] … the aspect of altars should be to the east, and they should always be lower than the statues in the temple, so that the supplicants and those that sacrifice, in looking towards the deity, may stand more or less inclined, as the reverence to be shewn may proportionably require … [Vitruvio, De Architectura, from Bill Thayer]
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