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The Ordonnance of the Part If.

What was said of the Character, and Proportion of the Part$of the Base, may also be said of those of this Cornice, the numberof those Members which compose it, being excessive, in the Archof TitUs, and too few in that of Septimius.

BASE The Base os the Column is like that of the Corinthian Order jQ j t he thus it is in the Arch of Titus: Sometimes, the Attic Base is madeColumn, use of, as in the Temple of Bacchus, in the Arch of Septimius , inthat of Verona , and in the Baths of Diocletian. Vignola makes aBase particular to his Composite , taking it from a Base which for-merly belong’d to a Corinthian Order of Diocletian's Baths, andwhich differs nothing from the Corinthian Base, but in that it hasonly one Astragal between the two Scotias, and that the other A-stragal, which this Place is depriv’d of, is put between the greatTorus and the first Scotia. But besides that this Base is not in use,the Astragal, which is the only Member it has, between two Fillets,being but weak, and ill sustain’d by the Scotias, renders this Partof the Base too thin and sharp. It seems as if the Character of thisBase was taken from the Bases of the Temple of Concord , which, in-stead of the two Astragals, and the two Fillets, that are betweenthe Scotias, have only one Fillet, which is still less tolerable thanthe single Astragal of Vignola' s Base, which, at least, is acccompa-nied, and sustained by two Fillets.

The Shaft of the Column, differs in nothing from the Corinthian ,but that its Height is increas’d by two little Modules.

The The Capital makes the principal Character of this Order, theCapital. Base being often the same as th c Corinthian, as has been said, andthe Entablature sometimes also alike in these two Orders, as may beseen in the Arch of Titus, where the Entablature is perfectly Corin-thian. The Height of the whole Capital, as in the Corinthian Order,is taken from the Diameter of the lower Part of the Column, towhich is added one sixth Part more. Four Sixths of the Diameterare given to the Leaves, and this being divided into six Parts, oneof them is for the bending of the Head of the Leaves. The threeother Sixths that remain above the Leaves, which are for the Vo-lutes, Ovolo, Astragal and Abacus, is parted into eight j six and ahalf of these are given to the Volute which rests upon the Head ofthe second Range of Leaves, two to the Abacus, one to the Spacebetween the Abacus and Ovolo, two to the Ovolo, and one to theAstragal with its Fillet. The Flower, which is in the middle of theAbacus, over the Ovolo, rises to the upper Part of the Abacus : itis broader by half one of these Eights than it is high. The Proje-ctiles are determined by Fifths of the little Module, as in the Corin-thian Order, and the Plan of the Capital is also made in the sameManner, the Leaves are cut after the Manner of the Acanthus, or

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