CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. 



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Proportion 

 of principal 



member*. 



Shifts and 



niret. 



Practice. 



Oh*erva- I" the temples of Jupiter Panellenius at jEgina, The- 

 iion> upon KUS at Athens, Minerva at Sunium, Jupiter Nemeus be* 

 IjK? 1 *" tween Argos and Corinth, the cornice has lost the ovolo 

 "" or crowning member, the dimensions in the table are there- 

 fore taken without it ; the temple of Minerva Parthenon 

 at Athens ii the only ancient Greek edifice in which 

 this member exists, and in this instance the lower extre- 

 mity is recessed within the fillet which is immediately 

 under it. Those parts marked with a star in the table 

 arc totally gone. The crowning member of the cornice 

 of the portico of Philip King of Macedon is a cima 

 recta, having its lower extremity also recessed within 

 the fillet which is below it. The cornice of the hexa- 

 style temple of Pzstum is crowned with a cavetto. Be- 



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ing a singular circumstance in the Greek Doric, it lead: 

 to a suspicion that it may have been added in some sub- 

 sequent repair. 



From consulting these Tables, it will be seen, that in the 

 best examples, the height of the architrave and frieze are 

 nearly equal ; in the temple of Sunium they are precisely 

 so. Tae only exception of consequence is in the temple of 

 Juno Lucina at Agrigentum, where the architrave exceeds 

 the frieze 9^ inches : in no other instance is the difference 

 at all material, and any that does exist has most probably 

 arisen from the impracticability of procuring so many 

 marbles of the same dimensions. In comparing the ta- 

 bular dimensions, it is to be observed, that the band or 

 capital of the triglyph it included in the height of that 



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