parts, one will be the height of the lower torus, and the 
other the height of the scotia, with its fillets, which the 
Greeks call goo (trochilus). If Ionic, they are to be set 
out so that the base may each way be equal to the thick- 
ness and three eighths of the column. Its height and that 
of the plinth the same as the attic base. The plinth 
is the same height as in that of the attic base, the re¬ 
mainder, which was equal to one-third part of the co¬ 
lumn's diameter, must be divided into seven parts, three 
of which are given to the upper torus; the remaining four 
parts are to be equally divided into two, one of which is 
given to the upper cavetto, with its astragals and listel, 
the other to the lower cavetto, which will have the ap- 
pearance of being larger, from its being next to the 
plinth. The astragals must be an eighth part of the sco- 
tia, and the whole base on each side is to project three 
sixteenths of a diameter. The bases being thus com¬ 
pleted, we are to raise the columns on them. Those of 
the pronaos and posticum are to be set up with their axes 
perpendicular, the angular ones excepted, which, as well 
as those on the flanks, right and left, are to be so placed 
that their interior faces towards the cell be perpendicu¬ 
lar. The exterior faces will diminish upwards, as above¬ 
mentioned. Thus the diminution will give a pleasing 
effect to the temple. The shafts of the columns being 
fixed, the proportions of the capitals are thus adjusted: if 
pillowed, as in the lonic, they must be so formed that the 
length and breadth of the abacus be equal to the diameter 
of the lower part of the column and one eighteenth more, 
and the height of the whole, including the volutes, half a 
diameter. The face of the volutes is to recede within 
the extreme projection of the abacus one thirty-ninth part