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have the same ; in the ftfst case onljr a diameter and a half, and little more, is allowed from the
modulary seale, and in the kst the pedestal B. admitted os two diameters and upwards. The die
of the pedestal and the members of its cornice and base, mould be adorned with works of the
fcuiptor's hand, when the superior parts of the order are intended to lie greatly enriched.
The bale C. is the Attic (a) base; it is given to this order in the above mentioned Athenian
antiquity. What is particularly to be noticed is, that the plinth os this base projects beyond
the die of the pedestal, and this docs not affect the solid bearing of the column, because the
ssiafr. is still narrower than the' breadth of the die of the pedestal; by the parts allowed to the
sweep of the apophyges. The Scozia can only be described as (hewn here at large, when the ma-
terials are os a fine hard texture; if of others, the sharpness os the edges would soon be de-
itroyed.
D. The semt-plan of a column ; on this are represented the cabled.^ or staff flutings; they reach
to one-third os the height of the shast. These cabled-ssutings, seem appropriated to shasts for
the Corinthian mode.
E. A kind of Attic capital, which has been in frequent use, both at Athens and in other
parts of Greece ; the upper range of leaves reserrible those called by workmen water-leaves. The
lower foliages are raffled and divided like those in the Corinthian capitals. This capital was
made out srom a mutilated one found in digging about the ddtogo'ii tower of the winds; and
Mr. Stuart has given it among other designs of that Ruin. But whatever variety of soliage, or
of other ornaments, there' may be to a capital, it cannot constitute a new mode.
As we have had occasion to mention the Temple of Jupiter Olympius, it is but right to in-
sorm our readers, that the ruins of it are still to be {sen at this day ; Mr. Stuart has traced it from
those remains on the south part of the city, which are vulgarly called the columns of Hadrian. Their
dimensions being six seet diameter, by sixty feet in height; their inclosure or peribolus, was a
circuit os near four stadia;
Wilder's account of the same ruins, seems to favour Mr. Stuart's ophiiori. " From this end os
« the castle south-eailwards, are those tall and beautisul pillars, called Hadrian's pillars, and are
(t commonly reputed to be the remains of his palace; and were probably the greatest ornaments
** os it, is hot ds the city too, when the whole structure thereof was entire. But my comrade and
" I are not of their opinion that his palace was built on the top of them, for that would prove
si too really a castle built in the air; they being about fifty-two feet high, comprehending the
*( chapters and base's. But seventeen of these pillars remain upright."

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The divisions of the entablature marked A. are taken srom the Poikile in the antiquities 6t
Athens. It is described at two diameters or four modules in height, so that upon the whole it
exceeds a little the original abovementbned ; and in the designs plate I. the Corinthian entabla-

(a) Uti mslitudo cum plimho sit column* ex dimidia crassitudirte, projefluraru quam Grrcei cephoran vocitant habeant
quadrantem. Ita turn lata & longa erit columns; ceassiiudinis unius & dimidite. Altitudo ejus si Attkurgea erit, ita dividltur
ui superior pars tertia parte sit crassitutiinis columns reliquum plimho tclinquatur. Dempta plir.tho, rcliquum diviJatur in par-
te- quatuor: fiatque superior torus quarta;; rdiquas trcs asqualiier dividamur, .V una sit iiiscibr torus alter? pars rum suU
quadris scolia, quam Greed Trochilon dicunt. Lib. 111. c, i.
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