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Lectures on architecture, comprising the history of the art from the earliest times to the present day: delivered at the Surrey and Russell Institutions, London, and the Philosophical Institution at Birmingham (1823)

Elmes, James, 1782-1862 · London, Priestley and Weale · leaf 209

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arts being few and simple, in preference to thereal Corinthian base, whose members are morenumerous, smaller, and more complex; withits reeds, double scotias, and other reduplica-tion of parts, which are not only characteristicof the order, but really beautiful, when usiednear to the eye. The… … The lowest member of the base is the plinth,which is a parallelopipedon, showing on everyface a perpendicular parallelogram. It is calledby ancient writers Zocolo or Plynthos, being acubical brick, or tablet, placed under the co-lumn, to prevent it from rotting when of wood,and from penetrating the…

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