34 RUDIMENTS OF
mon to the Doric and Ionic orders; for it
has no particular species of ornament pe-
culiar to its cornice: sometimes it has the
Doric mutules and triglyphs in the ar-
chitrave ; sometimes an Ionic frize, with
denteles in the cornice; in a manner, it is
no more than a third order, risen out of
the former two, which has nothing pecu-
liar to itself, but the capital." The
origin of which he thus records :
" A marriageable young lady of Corinth
fell ill, and died; after the interment, her
nurse collected together sundry ornaments
with which she used to be pleased ; and
putting them into a basket, placed it near
her tomb; and, lest they should be injured
by the weather, she covered the basket
with a tile, It happened the basket was
placed on a root of acanthus, which in
spring shot forth its leaves; these running
up the side of the basket, naturally formed
a kind of volute, in the turn given by the
tile tothel eaves."—"Happily Callimachus,
a most ingenious sc ulptor, passing that way,
was struck with the beauty, elegance, and
novelty of the basket surrounded by the
acanthus leaves ; and, according to this
mon to the Doric and Ionic orders; for it
has no particular species of ornament pe-
culiar to its cornice: sometimes it has the
Doric mutules and triglyphs in the ar-
chitrave ; sometimes an Ionic frize, with
denteles in the cornice; in a manner, it is
no more than a third order, risen out of
the former two, which has nothing pecu-
liar to itself, but the capital." The
origin of which he thus records :
" A marriageable young lady of Corinth
fell ill, and died; after the interment, her
nurse collected together sundry ornaments
with which she used to be pleased ; and
putting them into a basket, placed it near
her tomb; and, lest they should be injured
by the weather, she covered the basket
with a tile, It happened the basket was
placed on a root of acanthus, which in
spring shot forth its leaves; these running
up the side of the basket, naturally formed
a kind of volute, in the turn given by the
tile tothel eaves."—"Happily Callimachus,
a most ingenious sc ulptor, passing that way,
was struck with the beauty, elegance, and
novelty of the basket surrounded by the
acanthus leaves ; and, according to this