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The third species, Corinthian, is so called because, “Callimachus, who for his great ingenuity and taste was called by the Athenians Catatechnos, happening at this time to pass by the tomb, observed the basket and the delicacy of the foliage which surrounded it. Pleased with the form and novelty of combination, he constructed, from the hint thus afforded, columns of this species in the country about Corinth." (Vitruvius, Book IV. Chap. 1).

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De architectura — Vitruvius Pollio, Latin