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5This finished, let the bases of the columns be set in place, and constructed in such proportions that their height, including the plinth, may be half the thickness of a column, and their projection (called in Greek ἑκφορἁ) the same. Thus in both length and breadth it will be one and one half thicknesses of a column.
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