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Of the order of Ionica, and the Ornaments thereof. The seuenth Chapter.
VItruuius speaketh of Ionica, in his fourth Booke and 1. Chapter: and as I also said, the ancient Pagans tooke this kind of worke from women, and ascribed it to Diana, Apollo, & Bacchus, &c. But we that are Christians, hauing a Temple to make of this worke, we will dedicate it to such Saints as are of nature, eyther weake or strong: so likewise, common workes are fit for peaceable people, men, neyther great workemen, nor all too simple in workemanship: and such workemen are fittest for such worke. Now let vs come to the measures: the Ionica Columne, by a common rule, must be of 8. parts, with Capitall and Base: although that Vitruuius sayth, it must be of 8. parts and an halfe; so may men sometimes make it of 9. parts and more, as some indifferent workemen haue affirmed. But this, I say, shall be made of 8. parts, which must hold his thicknesse below, and so shall their Bases be of halfe the same thickenes, which Vitruuius setteth downe diligently, in the 3. Booke, and in the third Chapter of the same Booke, in this maner, that the Base aforesayd, must be of halfe the Columnes thickenesse, but the Plinthus must be of the third part thereof: which Plinthus taken of, you shal make se∣uen parts of the rest; whereof three shall be for the Thorus, and foure shall bee for the two Scoties or Tro∣chiles, with their Astragals and Lists, so that each Trochile must haue his Astragall. The Astragall shall be the eyght part of the Trochile, the Lists halfe the Astragals. Although each Scotie with the Appen∣dances are all of one height, yet the vndermost shalbe greater; for it shall shoot out vnderneath, to the out∣termost part of the Plinthus. The Proiecture on eyther side, shall be one eyght part, and one fixt part: so that the Plinthus on eyther side shall be one fourth part, and one eyght part more then the thickenesse of the Columnes. Now, for that the Cincte or List is suppressed by the greatnes of the Thorus, I am perswa∣ded that it ought to be made the halfe greater then the other. Obserue in all the members and parts with discretion, as should be vsed in the Dorica.
FOR that the Base of the Ionica Pillar, written of by Vitruuius, contenteth not the greatest workemen, because the Thorus is very great, and the Astragall small, vnder so great a member, according to the iudge∣ment of expert workmen, that haue oftentimes disputed the same, with reuerence, and much respect of such an Author; I will frame one here according to my opinion. The Plinthus being made, as I sayd before, the rest shalbe deuided in thrée parts, whereof one part shalbe for the Thorus: the other vnder that Tho∣rus deuide in sixe parts; one of them for an Astragall, the Cinthe the halfe thereof. The Cinthe or Supercilie vnder the