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)

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lo the Smaller, that of Simus, or Flat-nosed • commonly placed beneath
the other, under a small F*7k3 yet not so essentially, but that it has
been supplied by the AstragaU However, the moft natural Place os
the great Cymatium is upon the superior Cornice, where our Majler gives
it the Name of EpiBheates, and ssiould ever cover the Hoping sides os
Frontoons or Tympanum.
Cymatium is also about the Heads os ivsodilions and conftitutes part of
them, as likewise it enters into Abacus, and on Pedestals, as in Stylobau
Corona, and the Safe thereof, where we find them both in-Verted', though
I remember to have seen the upmost with the (%eBa also in the Cornice a-
bovementioned. But instead of Cymatium separating the Architrave and
Freeze, Taenia ostentimes supplies the room.
Txnia is properly Diadema, a !Bandlet or small Fillet with which they T
used to bind the Head 5 and rather those Lemnifci and Rubans which we
see Carved and dangling at the ends os Gyrlands. The Interpreter of
Hans Bloome names it the top of a Pillar, but very infolently $ it being
indeed the small F^/cwpartos the Doric Architrave (or as serault, ftri&Iy
belonging to the Cornice alone) sometimes^ but seldom, with a narrow
Cymatium, or (stegula under it, as that runs under the Triglyphs as a kind os
fBase: Some call it the neatherTkww (as Philander srequently) to diftin-
guissi it srom the Bandage which composes the Capitelli os the Triglyphs
and continues between them over the Metops, and not seldom under a
CaVetto or small Cymatium,wkh which Suidas and other learned Critics many
times consound it. In a Word, it is that in the Doric Architrave
which Cymatium is in the other Order, and feparates the Epistylium os
Architrave from the
Freeze, the Word in Greeks 2ao<p6p©,, and does genuinely import the
imaginary Circle of the Zodiac depicted with the twelve Signs $ but by
our ArchiteBs it is taken sor the Second Division of the Entablature above
the Columns, being like a Fair and Ample Table between the former Te-,
nid, and which though oftentimes plain fliould bcPulvinatus^ pillowed*
or fwelling in the Ionic Order $ but in the Doric enriched with the Tri-
glyph and Metops, and with a Thoufand H'lflorical Symbolic, Grotef. and o-
therssored Inventions in the reft of the Orders (Tuscan excepted J efpeci-
ally the Corinthian and Compofta, and fometimes with Infcriptions. Our
term is derived either from the Latin fhrygio a Border, or from the Ita-
lian Freggio, which denotes any Fringed or Embroidered Belt : ^Inlander
says d fhrygionibus, not srom the <Phryges a People of the Minor Afia, as
fome erroneoufly 5 but fhrygwnes, z certain Broidery or flowered Needle-
Work, as one ssiould fay Troy-ftitch (whence haply our True-ftitch) in imi-
tation whereof they wrought Flowers and Compartments upon the Freeze-,
which is commonly no broader than the Architrave: In the Ionic, if plain,
a fourth Part lefs 5 if wrought, a fourth larger, of which fee more where
we fpake of Ornaments.
Befides this of the Entablature, the Capitals os both Tufcan and Doric
have the Freeze likewise commonly adorned with four %o[es and as ma-
ny fmaller Flomrs, for which caufe it is called the Freeze of the Capital
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