in front were intended to resemble the hair as it was then 
worn, and the shaft was channelled in such a manner as to 
bear some resemblance to the folds of the matronly garment. 
Thus the invention of two different orders arose; one 
exhibiting the boldness and simplicity of the masculine 
figure; and the other the more finished form of a woman. 
attired and richly decorated. Latter ages however, advancing 
in refinement and judgment, sought to give greater 
beauties to both by making the Doric column seven times 
its diameter at the base of the shaft; and the lonic nine 
times' its lower diameter. The order whose use was 
adopted first by the lonian colonies, was called the 
lonic. 
The third order, which is termed Corinthian, derives its 
symmetry from an intention to make the form of the column 
accord with the more delicate proportions of the maiden figure: 
for at that early period of life the limbs are less robust, and the 
figure admits of a greâter display of ornament. The invention 
of the capital is said to owe its origin to the following 
circumstance. A virgin of Corinth, just as she had attained to a 
marriageable state, was attacked by a disorder whose effects 
proved fatal. After her interment the vases, the objects of her 
admiration when alive, were collected by her nurse and 
deposited in a basket, which she placed upon the grave, after 
covering it with a tile to protect it from the weather. The 
1 The manuscript copies read nine ; in order, therefore, to obviate the antilogy, 
which the adoption of this reading would cause in this and the passage in the second 
chapter of the first section, relating to the height of eustyle columns, as it stands in 
the printed copies, the editors have here substituted “ octo semis,' for : novem.