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3I will, however, proceed to explain the method of using it, as instructed therein by my masters; so that if any one desire it, he will here find the proportions detailed, and so amended, that he may, without a defect, be able to design a sacred building of the Doric order. The front of a Doric temple, when columns are to be used, must if tetrastylos, be divided into twenty-eight parts; if hexastylos, into forty-four parts; one of which parts is called a module, by the Greeks ἐμβάτης: from the module so found the distribution of all the parts is regulated.
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