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Vitruvius's description of this order (Book III, chap. III) is not clear. According to his commentator Daniel Barbaro (Gwilt, Encycl. art. 2577) "the height of the pedestal is made nearly a third part (including its base and cymatium) of the height of the column. To the base of the column he assigns half a diameter, and to the shaft itself nearly eight diameters, its surface being cut into twenty-four flutes separated by fillets from each other. His method of describing the volute is not thoroughly understood: it is, perhaps, of little importance to trouble ourselves to decipher his directions, seeing that the mode of forming it is derived from mathematical principles, as well understood now as in the days of the author."

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De architectura — Vitruvius Pollio, Latin