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Definition of Epistyles
1. epistyle [n] - See also: epistyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistyles
Literary usage of Epistyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Theory of Salts: A Treatise on the Constitution of Bipolar (two-membered by Charles Blachford Mansfield (1865)
"These are the styles which >!itain ex-epistyles or additional molecules ap- ::'1od
to their epistyles. There are a considerable number of these, ..."
2. Finis pyramidis; or, Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific by Thomas Gabb (1806)
"l the members rated, as Vitruvius directs, and as seen beneath, by the epistyles,)
will be one diameter and 34*' minutes. Then take a column 70 feet high ..."
3. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"Only two neared readiness: an actual-state plan of the pavement and a plan of
the exterior and interior epistyles. These have been put into final form for ..."
4. The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The Classical Building by William Bell Dinsmoor (2004)
"... slings such as ss'ere used for the Done epistyles, lowered into place on the
capitals. and then shifted to close the longitudinal joint after the ropes ..."
5. The Foundations of Classic Architecture by Herbert Langford Warren (1919)
"The columns of the lower story are all in place, and still carry their complete
epistyles. Of the upper colonnades three columns remain standing on one side ..."
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