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imagine, and not without ground, that the Tufcah, nearly as
w*e have it now, was the firft hate of the Doric.
Vitruvius fpeaks of a hate in which the Doric column was
in before it was reduced to order; for, treating of the antiquity
of the Doric, that it was ufed in the temple of Juno, at Argos,
he fays, that “ the fame order was alfo ufed in the other cities
of Achaia, before the laws of its fymmetry were eftablilhed.”
This indicates that it was in a more rude hate before it was
employed in that famous temple.
But if that temple, dedicated to Juno, was erected in the
days of Dorus, the king of Argos, as Vitruvius intimates, it would
be rather incredible to think that the Doric order fhould be in
exigence in times fo long before Solomon *: and, upon fuch a
fuppoiition, thofe who maintain that the firft idea of the orders
was derived from Solomon’s temple, would be grofsly miD
taken.
A certain author, after quoting Vitruvius on the fubjedt,
fays, 44 Such is the account given by Vitruvius of the origin of
* Dorus mull have been, at leaft, four hundred years before Solomon, if he reigned at
Argos before the expedition of the Argonauts.
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imagine, and not without ground, that the Tufcah, nearly as
w*e have it now, was the firft hate of the Doric.
Vitruvius fpeaks of a hate in which the Doric column was
in before it was reduced to order; for, treating of the antiquity
of the Doric, that it was ufed in the temple of Juno, at Argos,
he fays, that “ the fame order was alfo ufed in the other cities
of Achaia, before the laws of its fymmetry were eftablilhed.”
This indicates that it was in a more rude hate before it was
employed in that famous temple.
But if that temple, dedicated to Juno, was erected in the
days of Dorus, the king of Argos, as Vitruvius intimates, it would
be rather incredible to think that the Doric order fhould be in
exigence in times fo long before Solomon *: and, upon fuch a
fuppoiition, thofe who maintain that the firft idea of the orders
was derived from Solomon’s temple, would be grofsly miD
taken.
A certain author, after quoting Vitruvius on the fubjedt,
fays, 44 Such is the account given by Vitruvius of the origin of
* Dorus mull have been, at leaft, four hundred years before Solomon, if he reigned at
Argos before the expedition of the Argonauts.
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