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Cathetus

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Gr. KciOETOS, a perpendicular line), in architecture the eye of the volute, so termed because its position is determined, in an Ionic or voluted capital, by a line let down from the point in which the volute generates.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cathetus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cathetus.html. 1910.
 
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