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The Ordonnance of the Part II.

CHAP. IV.

Of the CORINTHIAN Order. \

1 T%UV 1 US makes the Corinthian andIonic Order, differ only in their Capitals,whose Proportion and Character havenothing alike : But we find in Structures,built since his time, other Differencesthan those of their Capitals; for theShaft of the Corinthian Column is shorterthan that of the Ionic: the Base is quitedifferent. The Architrave, besides thethree Faces, and the Cymaife, has also two Astragals and an Ogee.The Cornice has an Ovolo, and Modillions, which are not in theIonic Order of Fitruvius.

BASE I" the first Part of this Treatise, where are establifh'd the Pro-of the portions in general, there is given to the entire Order, forty-threePedestal, little Modules j whereof, the Pedestal has nine, the Column twen-ty-eight, and the Entablament six. The Proportions were also ad-justed, by giving the whole Base a Quarter of the Height of thePedestal, and half a Quarter to the Cornice 5 the Zocolo, orPlinth of the Base, having two Thirds of the whole Base, the ci-ther Third is parted into nine 5 whence are taken the Heights of thefive Members, whereof this Part is composed 5 which are a Torus,an inverted Cymatium, with its Fillet, and an Ogee, with its Fil-let under it. The Torus has two Parts and a half of the nine 3 theCymatium three and a Half, which Half is for the Fillet; the Ogeetwo and a Half, and its Fillet half a Part. The Projecture of the

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