Ch*.'.

L
the DORIC ORDER.
TaEU of PaITS of the Evr^ELATLiE C? THZ MrrTLUt Doic.
S53
D is the plan of a triglTph to double the scale.
E is the plan of the round or square gutlse.
is the elevation of the triglyph and its guttse.
V.-iWiTiffs Kkonn/dH^ Parti me OABposed.
1
Kefght* of j
Fares of a
Mmioie- 1
frjoi Axi* QC
Coiiona Lo Pacts
Fillet of the coroL.a I
,,
1
Cvma - - -
. -
3 31
Fillet -
- -
j
31
Cvina re^ersa - . . SC^
Corona
- -
5, 30
Cornice A, Crma rerer^a
. -
1 29i
18 uaxts. Mutiile
. .
3 S^-
Drip
Gutta of the mutule -
-
-
i
i
-26
Echinus- or iioarter routid
Fillet
-
-
2
1
4
Capital of the triglvph - - 11
Kiieze B.
IS parts.
Triglvph
L iletope
-
- 1^
!
Listel - . .
2
12
Architrave C^
1^ parts.
Capital of tlit gurti
Gutta
First fescia
- -
k
6
Second &seia -
- -
4 10
i:o6;>. To obviate: the diSculties mentioned in i56l. rtiarive to the triglyphs. tisy fcfw
often been omitted and the entablature left pljin. as in the Coliseum, at lloine. the eoUja-
uade> of St. Peter's of the Vatican, aad in many ot^ber buildings. This, says Chambers, is
an easy expedient ; but as it robs the ordta- of its principal eharacteristie distmcacm, the
remedy is a desperate one, and should only be anployed as a last resource.
2564. The E)oric orda- was used by the ancients in teniples dedicated to Mmem;, to
Alars, and to Hercules. In modem buildings. S-lio (lib. iv c. 6.)
re^K*ds it ]
ehurclies dedicated to saints reraaikable by their soffering foe the Christian Cutfa. Le Clerc
suggests its use (or military buildings.
-
It may.'" says Chamljers,
-
be employed, in the
houses of generals, or other martial men. in mausoleums erected to their memory, or ia
triumphal bridges and arches built to celebrate their Tietones.'
S665. As the difierence becweea the mutular asd deuticalar Doric lies entbdy ia
tlie entablature, ^e give in ilie fjUovrir^ tal!; tr.e l^'e
_:"
:'
; ,:.
- .:' the order.
ol>serTing;. that froi:
sauie for each. Fiff.
I the capitals doM-nwarils. the measures assa^rned to taem are tiia
SSI. repn:sents the entablature o( the dendcclar Ducic and its parT%