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Called by our workmen the drip, is to be cut into it%
Soffit, by a line* called scotia, says Vitruviüs, With
allusion to it's effect, the term scotia signifying a shade
or darkness, as the hollow within the chin produces
Ihät shade.
As, then, Vitruvius duly gave every principal, ana
every subordinate, distinct member, it's proper terminai
tion at top, by assigning it a cymatium, whéti he treated
of the íoriic style ; it is repugnant to architectural pro-
priety to imagine, he intended nothing of that kind, as
a crowning to these mutiles ; and, since he could not
properly call such a crowning of tliëiii a cymatium, à
term which he could not apply to epistyles and to thé
freeze, on account of the flat and angular form, such
Crownings there have, instead of cymátia; hence it was,
he gave to this capping of the sets of drops, the name
î)orictiiïi cymatium ; since taenia was before the terni
engaged for the epistyles, and this obliged him to dis-
tinguish the very same formed member, by the name,
Capital of the triglyphs, when it was in place of the cy^
ftatium of the freeze : neither of these names, there-
fore, could he use for the capping of the drops, Without
causing á confusion in terms, and accordingly distin-
guished it from a cymatium, properly so called, by the
adjunct Doricum; saying, "corona habens cymatiurá
dofiCum in imo alterum in summo." It is evident, by
fhè word alterum he means the cymatium properly so
called, for the capping of the face of the corona. Thiá
is the whole mistery òf this passage ; which so perplex-
ed the learned Commentators, who by their conjectures
And researches gave a kind of importance to a trifle^
Í i which
* By Ha«, here, he means profile^
Called by our workmen the drip, is to be cut into it%
Soffit, by a line* called scotia, says Vitruviüs, With
allusion to it's effect, the term scotia signifying a shade
or darkness, as the hollow within the chin produces
Ihät shade.
As, then, Vitruvius duly gave every principal, ana
every subordinate, distinct member, it's proper terminai
tion at top, by assigning it a cymatium, whéti he treated
of the íoriic style ; it is repugnant to architectural pro-
priety to imagine, he intended nothing of that kind, as
a crowning to these mutiles ; and, since he could not
properly call such a crowning of tliëiii a cymatium, à
term which he could not apply to epistyles and to thé
freeze, on account of the flat and angular form, such
Crownings there have, instead of cymátia; hence it was,
he gave to this capping of the sets of drops, the name
î)orictiiïi cymatium ; since taenia was before the terni
engaged for the epistyles, and this obliged him to dis-
tinguish the very same formed member, by the name,
Capital of the triglyphs, when it was in place of the cy^
ftatium of the freeze : neither of these names, there-
fore, could he use for the capping of the drops, Without
causing á confusion in terms, and accordingly distin-
guished it from a cymatium, properly so called, by the
adjunct Doricum; saying, "corona habens cymatiurá
dofiCum in imo alterum in summo." It is evident, by
fhè word alterum he means the cymatium properly so
called, for the capping of the face of the corona. Thiá
is the whole mistery òf this passage ; which so perplex-
ed the learned Commentators, who by their conjectures
And researches gave a kind of importance to a trifle^
Í i which
* By Ha«, here, he means profile^