The Ten Books on Architecture, 3.3.1

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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The Proportions of Intercolumniations and of Columns

3There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right.

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