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'Vitruvius (Book IV, Chap. 1) is scanty in the information he gives on the Corinthian order, and what he says respecting it relates more to the origin of the capital and the like than to the proportion of the detail. He makes the capital only one diameter high, and then forms upon the plan a diagonal two diameters long by means whereof the four faces are equal according to the length of the arc, whose curve will be the ninth part in length and its height the seventh part of the capital. He forms the order with a pedestal, with base and cornice (as Daniel Barbaro would have it). The whole height given to it in our measures is about 27 modules and 2 parts.'—(Gwilt., *Encycl.*, art. 2587.)