Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pycnostylos

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. 

PYCNOSTY'LOS (πυκνόστυλος). Pycnostyle; a term employed by the ancient architects to designate the closest of the five different kinds of intercolumniation in use amongst them, which only had an interval of one diameter and a half between each column, as shown by the top line in the annexed diagram (Pycnostylos/1.1), exhibiting at one view the relative proportions of all the five styles. It was only applied in the Ionic and Corinthian order Vitruv. iii. 2.

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