The Ten Books on Architecture, 5.1.9

Vitruvius  translated by Joseph Gwilt

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9Over the architraves, upright with the capitals, piers are built three feet high and four feet square, on which are laid beams well wrought, joined together in two thicknesses of two feet each, and thereon the beams and rafters are placed over the columns, antæ, and walls of the pronaos, carrying one continued ridge along the basilica, and another from the centre thereof, over the pronaos of the temple.

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