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changed his mind, and, with the materials collected,
made it of the Ionic order, in honor of Bacchus. It is
not because this order wants beauty, antiquity (genus),
or dignity of form, but because its detail is shackled and
inconvenient, from the arrangement of the triglyphs, and
the formation of the sofite of the corona (lacunaria). It
is necessary that the triglyphs stand centrally over the
columns, and that the metopæ which are between the
triglyphs should be as broad as high. Over the columns,
at the angles of the building, the triglyphs are set at
the extremity of the frieze, and not over the centre of the
columns. In this case the metopæ adjoining the angular
triglyphs are not square, but wider than the others by
half the width of the triglyph. Those who resolve to
make the metopæ equal, contract the extreme interco-
lumniation half a triglyph's width. It is, however, a
false method, either to lengthen the metopæ or to con-
tract the intercolumniations ; and the ancients, on this
account, appear to have avoided the use of the Doric
order in their sacred buildings. I will, however, proceed
to explain 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, without a defect, be able to design a sacred build¬
ing 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 éußárys : from the module so found the distribu¬
tion 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 divided into three parts; then one of those
parts is to be assigned for the abacus and its cyma¬
tium, another for the echinus, with its fillets; the third
for the hypotrachelium. The diminution of the column