Full text: Vitruvius: The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio in ten books

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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.
	        
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