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Minutes as before, and brought the carriers of the mu-
tilation forwards till they touched the said front line^
thus changing the segment of the circle, which, taken
from the points of the horns*, was about 50°, to exactly
60".
This deviation from VitrUvius's document, by
Cutting off the horns of the abacus, is attended with
such appearances as would not, I am Well satisfied, have
ihtitled the inventor to share with Callimachus the honor
Of, catdtechnös, had he lived in that age. It causes the
junction of the volutes at the angles to be broader, and
of a heavier aspect, than VitruviuS intended, or than
suits the delicacy of the front aspect* And must
either contract the projectures of the volutes, or expose
a part of their top without the natural cover of the*
abacus.
There is â singularity in the mouldings that compose
this abactfs, viz, a hollow, then a fillet, and at top a
quarter round. The hollow is called by thé Italians ca-•
Tetto, the round they call ovolo : and I have some reason-
to conclude, this latter is what some have denominated
theLesbion astragal, about which theTé is á great variety
and Uncertainty of opinion* We have seen Vitruvius•
named this moulding, cymalium, in the Ionic capital,
alluding merely to it's form of profile-, in the Doric capi*
täl he calls it, ecimws, clearly on account of the carving it
Usually receives. But the quarter circle hollow has no
denomination from Vitruvius, though he twice allude^
to the" use of iti ϋϊζ» the apophyge of the shaft, whicht
fe a small quartet circle hollow ; and the spothesis, ai•
similar hollow from the upper part of the shaft to the
«íncture or fillet, that terminates the shaft ; but this
hollow obtains not these names out of those situations ι
Vf when
Minutes as before, and brought the carriers of the mu-
tilation forwards till they touched the said front line^
thus changing the segment of the circle, which, taken
from the points of the horns*, was about 50°, to exactly
60".
This deviation from VitrUvius's document, by
Cutting off the horns of the abacus, is attended with
such appearances as would not, I am Well satisfied, have
ihtitled the inventor to share with Callimachus the honor
Of, catdtechnös, had he lived in that age. It causes the
junction of the volutes at the angles to be broader, and
of a heavier aspect, than VitruviuS intended, or than
suits the delicacy of the front aspect* And must
either contract the projectures of the volutes, or expose
a part of their top without the natural cover of the*
abacus.
There is â singularity in the mouldings that compose
this abactfs, viz, a hollow, then a fillet, and at top a
quarter round. The hollow is called by thé Italians ca-•
Tetto, the round they call ovolo : and I have some reason-
to conclude, this latter is what some have denominated
theLesbion astragal, about which theTé is á great variety
and Uncertainty of opinion* We have seen Vitruvius•
named this moulding, cymalium, in the Ionic capital,
alluding merely to it's form of profile-, in the Doric capi*
täl he calls it, ecimws, clearly on account of the carving it
Usually receives. But the quarter circle hollow has no
denomination from Vitruvius, though he twice allude^
to the" use of iti ϋϊζ» the apophyge of the shaft, whicht
fe a small quartet circle hollow ; and the spothesis, ai•
similar hollow from the upper part of the shaft to the
«íncture or fillet, that terminates the shaft ; but this
hollow obtains not these names out of those situations ι
Vf when