The Ten Books on Architecture, 3.5.1

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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Proportions of the Base, Capitals, and Entablature in the Ionic Order

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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