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2It is necessary that the triglyphs stand centrally over the columns, and that the metopæ which are between the triglyphs should be as broad as high. Over the columns, at the angles of the building, the triglyphs are set at the extremity of the frieze, and not over the centre of the columns. In this case the metopæ adjoining the angular triglyphs are not square, but wider than the others by half the width of the triglyph. Those who resolve to make the metopæ equal, contract the extreme intercolumniation half a triglyph’s width. It is, however, a false method, either to lengthen the metopæ or to contract the intercolumniations; and the antients, on this account, appear to have avoided the use of the Doric order in their sacred buildings.
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