Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Editor]: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another ; the three Greek orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise ; and the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter (London, 1733)

i 6 Account of Architects
ning of his Wall, and ought commonly to be double the Thielchess
of the SuperflruElion. This the Greeks called
stereobata. gtereobata ripesGd-rM, folidum fulcimentum, sor its artificial Firmness,
as immediately succeeding the underfilling of the former 3 sor so we
name those dry Materials upon the Sursace to be the Safes oi the
whole Edifice. I am not ignorant that some contend about this
Office, confounding it with the Stylobata and Pedejlals os Columns,
assigning them a regular Thickness of hals as much more as the O-
ders they support 3 and then the Italians call it the Zoccolo, (pillow or
Die^ because of its cubique and solid Figure : But I rather take in
for the <Bafamento of the whole, which I would therefore rather aug-
ment than contract to that Hinted Dimension. The reverend Daniel
Sarbaro, c. 8. 1. 2. describes us all the Kinds of them, and calls
this in particular, and which confirms this Division, the concealed
Part, or fundatio in imo : And then by this elegant Dijlintlion defines
mueiur*. Strutlura to be that of Fronts 3 Injlrutlion that of the middle Parts 3
fubsirt-0' and Subslrutlion of the lower 3 though this last Notion does likewise
6ii0° many times import some vast and magnificent Building 3 sor so
Saldus has cited that Passage in Liv. 1. 6. where he names the {lately
Capital a Subjlrutlion only, and other Authors Subslrutliones in/anas,
for such vast and enormous Fabricks: But that we may not omit
the (pedejlal, though of rarer Use amongst the Ancients, 1 come next
to the
styioba. Stylobata 3 for our <Pedeflal is Vox Hybrida, a very Mungril, not
Ttd'ejid. a Stylo, as some imagine, but a Stando, and is taken sor that solid
Cube, or Square, which we already mentioned to be that to the Column
imposed, which the SuperslruElure is to this, Fulcimentum Columns :
• It is likewise called Truncus the Trunk, though more properly ta-
ken for the Shaft or (Body os an Order, contained between the Cornice
and Safe, sor Pedejlals have likewise those Ornaments inseparably,
also Abacus, Dado, Zocco, &c. which is sometimes carved with !Bass-
relieVo in historical Emblems, as that os Trajan s at (%o?ne, and ours
on Fifh-flreet Hill: But as it was rarely used among the Ancients 5 so
they were all square alike to all the Orders 3 'till from good Examples
by later Architects, and especially Paliadio, reduced to Proportion and
very gracesul. Those which are more large than high, are called
double Pedejlals supporting double Columns, and some which are con-
tinued through the whole Building. Also Poggio, srom its Ofsice
os supporting 3 and then it is constantly adorn'd with a Cornice con-
listing os a Cymatium on a Corona with Lists, and sometimes Scotia,
or {hallow Cavities, and an Addition os an upper Zocco or Plinth os
a smaller Hollow, and part os the Cymatium, upon which the Scamilli
impares VitruYiani were set, is designed sor Statues: Or, if without,
sor Columns. The Safe has likewise an Ornament os a Cymatium inverted
upon a Plinth, as may be seen in the Corinthian Stylobata : The general
Rule is to divide the whole into nineteen Parts 3 the Pedeftal shall
have sour, the Intablature three 5 but is a Column be without Pedeflal,