The Ten Books on Architecture, 4.4.1

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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The Cella and Pronaos

4The length of a temple is adjusted so that its width may be half its length, and the actual cella one fourth greater in length than in width, including the wall in which the folding doors are placed. Let the remaining three parts, constituting the pronaos, extend to the antae terminating the walls, which antae ought to be of the same thickness as the columns. If the temple is to be more than twenty feet in width, let two columns be placed between the two antae, to separate the pteroma from the pronaos. The three intercolumniations between the antae and the columns should be closed by low walls made of marble or of joiner’s work, with doors in them to afford passages into the pronaos.

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