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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 212

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inthe ornament of the frieze.Its use was mainly confinedto arcades in forums andcourt-yards, purposes whichit fulfilled very acceptably ;but that it was vastly infe-rior to its Hellenic prototypeseems to have been recog-nised by the Romans them-selves, since they used it butsparingly. The Ionic and… … Fig. 65.—The Roman DoricOrder.

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