Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture, BOOK III, CHAPTER II: CLASSIFICATION OF TEMPLES, section 5

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CHAPTER I: ON SYMMETRY: IN TEMPLES AND IN THE HUMAN BODY

CHAPTER II: CLASSIFICATION OF TEMPLES

CHAPTER 3: THE PROPORTIONS OF INTERCOLUMNIATIONS AND OF COLUMNS

CHAPTER IV: THE FOUNDATIONS AND SUBSTRUCTURES OF TEMPLES

CHAPTER V: PROPORTIONS OF THE BASE, CAPITALS, AND ENTABLATURE IN THE IONIC ORDER

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5. A temple will be peripteral that has six columns in front and six in the rear, with eleven on each side including the corner columns.

Let the columns be so placed as to leave a space, the width of an intercolumniation, all round between the walls and the rows of columns on the outside, thus forming a walk round the cella of

the temple, as in the cases of the temple of Jupiter Stator by Hermodorus in the Portico of Metellus, and the Marian temple of Honour and Valour constructed by Mucius, which has no portico in the rear.

Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.

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