Who wrote "De architectura": Vitruvius, Josephus, Lucian of Samosata or Marcus Tullius Cicero?

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Vitruvius, a Roman architect and military engineer, wrote De architectura (known in English as On Architecture or Ten Books on Architecture) for his patron, Emperor Caesar Augustus, to serve as a guide for building projects.

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