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  • Besides, there are fasciae running all round under the cymatia on the jambs, and apportioned so as to be equal to three sevenths of a jamb, excluding the cymatium.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • So the corona with its cymatia is half a module in height.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • At the foot they substituted the base in place of a shoe; in the capital they placed the volutes, hanging down at the right and left like curly ringlets, and ornamented its front with cymatia and with festoons of fruit arranged in place of hair, while they brought the flutes down the whole shaft, falling like the folds in the robes worn by matrons.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

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