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Huius autem rei ratio explicabitur sic. frons loci quae in aede constituta fuerit, si tetrastylos facienda fuerit, dividatur in partes XI S praeter crepidines et proiecturas spirarum; si sex erit columnarum, in partes XVIII; si octastylos constituetur, dividatur in XXIV et semissem. item ex his partibus sive tetrastyli sive hexastyli sive octastyli una pars sumatur, eaque erit modulus. cuius moduli unus erit crassitudinis columnarum. intercolumnia singula, praeter media, modulorum duorum et moduli quartae partis; mediana in fronte et postico singula ternûm modulorum. ipsarum columnarum altitudo modulorum VIIII et dimidiae moduli partis. ita ex ea divisione intercolumnia altitudinesque columnarum habebunt iustam rationem.

Vitruvius Pollio. On Architecture. F. Krohn. Lipsiae. B.G. Teubner. 1912.

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