Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Diatoni

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DIAT'ONI (διάτονοι). Girders, or bandstones, employed in the construction of walls which are built in the style termed Emplecton. They are large stones of the same length as the entire thickness of the wall, like those marked F in the annexed example (Diatoni/1.1), and consequently extended from one face of it to the other, being laid in courses at regular intervals, for the purpose of consolidating the structure, and binding the whole together. (Vitruv. ii. 8. 7.)

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  Diatoni/1.1