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and at the same time kept close against the arrises of
the fillets, will touch some point in their circumference
and the arrises themselves throughout its motion. The
additional thickness of the flutes and fillets in the middle
of the column, arising from the entasis or swelling, will
be proportional to the swelling. On the cymæ of the
coronæ to the sides of temples, lions’ heads should be
carved ; and they are to be so disposed that one may
come over each column, and the others at equal distances
from each other, and answering to the middle of each
tile. Those which are placed over the columns are to be
bored through, so as to carry off the rain-water collected
in the gutter. But the intermediate ones must be solid,
so that the water from the tiles, which is collected in the
gutter, may not be carried off in the intercolumniations,
and fall on those passing. Those over the columns will
appear to vomit forth streams of water from their mouths.
In this book I have done my utmost to describe the
proportions of Ionic temples: in that following I shall
explain the proportions of Doric and Corinthian temples.