The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 56
which was built by Iclinus ; bul it doei notappear that the fragments were similar in other respects, and, even if they did, there isno argument for a range of Corinthian columns in the Parthenon, for iu the othertemple (that of Apollo, at Phygalia,! the Corinthian column was a solitary one. In… … say, that in aocient times, vehen good taste prevailed in Greece, theGreeks never made use of the Corinthian order to support weights,because this order is only an imitation of flowers, and naturally cannotsupport anything heavy ; they, therefore, used Tripodcs, or other archi-tectural ornaments;…
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