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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

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De architectura — Vitruvius Pollio, Latin