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Vitruvius (Book IV, chap. III) describes the Doric order more clearly than others. "In order to set out its proportions, he tells us, though not giving a direct rule, that its pedestal is composed of three parts, the cymatium or cornice, the die and the base : and that the base and the cymatium are composed of many mouldings, whose individual proportions, however, he does not give. He assigns no particular base to the Doric order : but nevertheless, places under half a diameter in height the Attic base, whose members are the plinth, small fillet, scotia, and the upper torus with its superior and inferior fillets, together with the apophyge of the column. He gives to the projection of the base a fifth part of the diameter of the column. The height of the shaft he makes of six diameters, and its diminution a sixth part of the diameter. The capital's height he makes equal to half a diameter, and divides it into three parts, one for the abacus and its cymatium, another for the echinus and its fillet, the third for the hypotrachelium. To the architrave he assigns the height of one half diameter of the column and to the frieze fifty parts of the module (semi-diameter divided into thirty parts), including the fascia, forming the capital of the triglyphs. His cornice consists of thirty parts of the module, and its projection forty. The whole height which he gives to the order is (in the measurement here adopted) seventeen modules and twenty parts." (Gwilt, *Encycl.* art. 2566).