M. Vitruvii Pollionis ... De architectura libri. X. ad Augustum Caesarem accuratissime conscripti, & locis quamplurimis hac editione emendati

Conformatio structure/arrangement 149.
Confornicari to vault/arch over, 216.
Congestitius locus heaped-up place/earthwork, 139
Congius a Roman liquid measure 278
Congialis situla a bucket containing a congius, 456.
Consensus in altum duplex double convergence in height 388
Contrafortia buttresses (Gallic) 287
Connisterium room where wrestlers were dusted 241
Contractura columnarum the tapering/contraction of columns 121 205
Convivarum numerus varius varied number of guests 266.
Corax machina crow-hook machine (a grappling device), 481
Coracinus color, & piscis a color, and a fish. 362
Coriceum a room for exercise 241
Corium hide/leather 62. 84. 308
Coria erecta tanned hides 76
Coriis bubalinis & crudis tegebantur machinæ bellicæ war machines were covered with raw buffalo hides 479 481
Corinthium æs Corinthian bronze, 371.
Corinthii generis partes parts of the Corinthian style 133.
Corinthii abaci latitudo width of the Corinthian abacus 134
Cornuæ antennarum the ends of the yardarms 453.
Corollæ triumphales triumphal garlands 166
Coronæ cornices/crowns 86. 144 180 206.
Coronarium opus est duplex crown-work is twofold 206. 317
Coronix cornice/molding 124.
Coronix corinthia eadem quæ Ionica the Corinthian cornice is the same as the Ionic. 133.
Coronix composita composite cornice 136.
Coronix Dorica Doric cornice 125.
Coronix Ionica Ionic cornice 128.
Coronix Tuscana Tuscan cornice 124.
Corporatura bodily shape/stature, 249.
Corpora omnia calore debilitari all bodies are weakened by heat 26.
Corfa a type of molding 190.
Corvus demolitor the destroyer crow (grappling hook) 482. 483
Corvi crows/hooks (Gallic) 86. 136.
Cothona ports/harbors 244
Cothones the same ibidem
Couriceum exercise room 241
Crassitudo columnæ thickness of a column 147
Crassitudo spiræ thickness of the base ibidem
Crathis flumen the Crathis river 361
Craticii parietes wattle-and-daub walls 86. 309
Crepidines curbs/foundations/pedestals 120 190. 245
Creta annularia ring-chalk, 331.
Creta argentaria silver-chalk 331
Creta Eretria Eretrian chalk 332.
Creta Selinussia Selinuntian chalk 333
Creta terra chalky earth 61. 319.
Creta viridis green chalk, 317.
Crotoniates Milo Milo of Croton 383.
Crocus unde dicta whence 'crocus' (saffron) is named 347.
Crocodili natura ibidem nature of the crocodile in the same place
Crocodilus horret crocum ibidem the crocodile shuns saffron in the same place
Crusta marmorea marble veneer/crust, 448
Crustastructuræ veneered structures, 77 448
Cryptæ vaults/crypts, 274 275
Cryptoporticus covered passage/vaulted gallery 234.

Cubus cube, 198. 200
Cubica ratio cubic ratio, 198.
Cubum duplicare to double the cube 392
Cubiculum bedroom, 18. 71, 272,
Cubiculares lecti sleeping beds 265
Cubilia beds/courses of stones, 76 78
Cubitus mensura the cubit measure, 104
Culina kitchen, 276
Culleus a large leather sack (measure) 278
Culleare vas sack-vessel ibid.
Culmen ridge of a roof 278
Cultelli small knives 306.
Cuneus wedge/theatre wedge-section, 29 216.
Cunei wedges 220
Cunei minacei a type of colored earth, 310.
Cunei silacei, purpurei, luteique ochre, purple, and yellow wedges (of pigment), 315
Cuniculi underground passages/mines 487
Cuniculo agere to drive a mine ibid.
Curculio frumentis nocet the weevil harms grains, 276.
Curia ubi ordinanda where the senate house should be arranged, 206
Cursus aquarum course of the waters, 7.
Curvatura curvature, 80 97
Cupressus arbor cypress tree, 88 201
Cutiliæ aquæ waters of Cutilia 351.
Cyanos blue pigment 327
Cyathus a liquid measure 278
Cychrilacus 364
Cyclus oculus dictus the circle called the eye 130
Cyclicus circular 4
Cydnus river Cydnus 353
Cydnus podagricis medetur Cydnus heals those with gout 353.
Cylindrus cylinder