The Ten Books on Architecture, 4.3.7

Vitruvius  translated by Joseph Gwilt

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7The above is the method used in diastyle works. If the work be systyle, with a monotriglyph: the front of the building, when tetrastylos, is to be divided into twenty-three parts; when hexastylos, into thirty-five: of these, one part is taken for a module; according to which, as above directed, the work is to be set out.

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