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Chapter XLVI deals with arches. The first three lines where the objects of arches are specified are not well preserved. The tentative translation would run thus: "Arches are made for (the decoration of) the (temples of) gods and the (palaces of) kings, for (ordinary residential buildings, as well as for) the upper portions of all kinds of thrones." In the writer's *Dictionary* numerous references to the arch have been gathered together from other chapters of this text and also from various literature and inscriptions, wherefrom it may be clear that the principles and use of the arch in buildings were sufficiently known to the old architects.