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Doric are, that it stands at once on the pavement of the building, without socle, tori, or fillets; and that it presents a more pyramidal section than the other, from the great diminution given ttfit. Its flutes too are never deeply sunk; the capital has no astragal, but only some small annulets to separate it from the shaft. The entablature is so subdivided that the architrave and frieze are each more than a third of its height, the remainder being given to the cornice, which has a band under the mutulus. The mutulus projects forward under the corona, over which is generally placed an ovolo fillet, with another larger ovolo and fillet there over. The column is usually five or six diameters high. The principal examples of the order are in the Par the non, temple of These us, Propylaeum, portico of the Agora at Athens, the temple of ^linerva at Sunium, one at Corinth, temple of Apollo and portico of Philip in the Isle of Delos, . . The Roman Doric varies considerably from that above described. From the diagram it will be seen that the triglyphs are always placed over the centre of the column, and the metop'a? should always be an exact square. It follows thence that the intercolumniations are always regulated by the triglyphs. Sometimes it is placed on a plinth, at other times on a pedestal sparingly decorated with mouldings. Though it occasionally, as in this example, has an Attic base, it is more commonly used with only a torus and astragal. The capital is formed with a neck and astragal under the ovolo, and a cyma revers a and fillet on the abacus. The only pure ancient example of this order is that of the theatre of Mar cell us at Rome. The flutes are without fillets between them.as in the Grecian Doric, and are twenty in number. Of the moderns.byfar the most succe ful in his profile of the order, which they have made what may be called Italian Doric, is Palladio, from whom the example here given is selected. [s. 372]