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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also, as we noted, to distinguish it srom the other 3 likewise Hypotrache-
lium, srom its Pofture between the Aftragal and the pegula or Annulus
os the Echinus : This Tuscan Freeze is plain and very simple 3 but in the
rest os the Orders it is employed with the Echinus, as in the lonica, and the
Capital Cauliculi or Stalks in the other two : Thefe ppjes are also sometimes
In/culped under the prominent Horns or Angles os the Doric Abacus.
Trigiyphus* Triglyphs which I affirmed to be charged on the Doric Freeze, is
a moft inseparable Ornament of it. The Word re/y*vq>& in Greeks im-
ports a three Sculptured Piece, quasi tres habens Glyphas: By their Trian-
gular Furrows, or Gutters rather, they seem to me as is they were meant
to convey the Guttee or Drops, which hang a little under them 5 though
there are who fancy them to have been made in imitation of J polio's Lyrey
because sirft put in Work as (they affirm) at the Delphic Temple: You are
to note that* the two angular Hollows are but hals Chanelled, whence they
are called SemicalanicuU, to diftinguifh them srom the Canaliculi, whose
Flutings are perfect, and make up the three with their Interjlices or Spaces,
being as many ssat and slender Shanks, sor so we may interpret the Latin
Femora : One of thefe is ever placed betwixt two Columns, and should be
about the Breadth of hals its Diameter below : The Italians name them
Pianetti, fmall Plains, and so do we 3 and they conftantly reach the whole
Diameter of the Freeze, being crowned with the formerly mentioned Capi-
tal, part os the upper Taenia, and determining with the neather, where it in-
tercepts them from the Prominent.
'utu' GuttxovDrops. It is certainly the most conspicuous Part os the DorkFree^e,
suppofed to have been at firft so Carved upon Boards only that had been
clapped on the Extremities of the Cantheru, Joijls or (Rafters ends which bore
upon the upper Fa/cia of the Architrave, to take off from the Desormity,
as alfo were the Triglyphs. How indifpenfably neceiTary they are both
to be placed in a just and due Square from each other, and Perpendicularly
over their Columns, the Author of the Parallel has ftiewed, Chap. 2. Part 1.
as in that of the Temple of Solomon according to Villalpandus s Defign, how
they have been admitted into the Corinthian Freeze, but without the Guttle-,
and fo in the Perfique. Thefe Gutu are as I faid thofe fix Appendant Drops
or Tears affected only to the Doric Order, feeming as it were to trickle down
and flow from the Channels and Shanks of the Triglyphs through the neather
Taenia, and fmall Piglet or Moulding under it.
GuttA are fometimes made in Shape of Flat Triangles, sometimes swelling
like the Setlion of a Cone or Bell (but fcjuare at the bottom) and therefore
so called by the French Jrchitetls. They are alfo under the Planton and the
Modilions which fupport the Cornice eighteen in Number, exactly over the
Triglyphs, as in that moft conspicuous Elevation of the Profile after the
ftately Relique at Alhano near P^me, than which nothing can be imagined
more Noble and Magnificent. Alberti calls these Gutu, ClaVos, as concei-
ving them to be in refemblance of Nails, but without any Reafon sor
his Conjecture.
M$tos*. Metope are the next in Order,and are nothing else save thofe empty Spa-
ces in the Freeze betwixt the Triglyphs in the Dork Order,either Pur a and Plain,
or