The Ten Books on Architecture, 3.3.4

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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4The construction will be diastyle when we can insert the thickness of three columns in an intercolumniation, as in the case of the temple of Apollo and Diana. This arrangement involves the danger that the architraves may break on account of the great width of the intervals.

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