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. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . e tympanum beingadorned with statues of ancient clay-work. Such was the origin of the Do-rick Of the three Greek styles, especiallythe principal or Dorick, the distinc-tions of ccra are easily acquired. The Dorick order is discriminatedby three various styles; the generalrule is, the shorter the column the moreancient. But the styles admit of deter-minate characteristics. •> At Athens the triglyphs were always calledAaptKM TptyXv(f)oi, Eurip. Orest. 1378 ; in whichj)ass:ige the original ones of icood are clearly mark-ed by the apposition of KfSpoora rtpepva. Alsothe AapiKov , the hollow, receivedits name from its use in this style of building, e. the cornice; and the Aea-jBiov Kvpariov,the ogee, was borrowed from it by the ^Eolians,among whom the Lesbian style of architecture{Xeaf^ia oiKoSnprj) was native, which required avery moveable plumb-line or Kavmv. Aristot. V. 10, 7, and jNIicha?! Ephesias ad loc. r^Iuilers Dorians, ii 2irt. p. TiOJaiPILl ©^ TKlliiyi IhY ^Y^Em^ [aniToanDo

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