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in their sacred buildings. I will, however, proceed to ex¬
plain the method of using it, as instructed therein by my
masters ; so that if any one desire it, he will here find the
proportions detailed, and so amended, that he may, with-
out a defect, be able to design a sacred building of the
Doric order. The front of a Doric temple, when columns
are to be used, must, if tetrastylos, be divided into twenty¬
eight parts ; if hexastylos, into forty-four parts ; one of
which parts is called a module, by the Greeks αrng:
from the module so found the distribution of all the parts
is regulated. The thickness of the columns is to be
equal to two modules, their height equal to fourteen.
The height of the capital one module, its breadth one
module and a sixth. Let the height of the capital be di¬
vided into three parts; then one of those parts is to be
assigned for the abacus and its cymatium, another for the
echinus, with its fillets; the third for the hypotrachelium.
The diminution of the column is to be as directed for the
Ionic order in the third book. The architrave or episty-
lium, with its tænia and guttæ, is to be one module in
height; the tænia is the seventh part of a module; the
length of the guttæ under the tænia plumb with the tri¬
glyphs, and including the fillet, the sixth part of a module.
The width of the soffit of the architrave is to correspond
with the thickness of the column at the hypotrachelium.
Over the architrave triglyphs are placed, with metopæ
one module and a half high, and one module wide on the
face. They are to be distributed so, that as well over the
columns at the angles, as over the intermediate columns,
they may stand above the two central quarters of the
columns. Two are to be placed in each intercolumnia¬