1. THIS finished, let the bases of the columns be set in place, and constructed in such proportions that their height, including the plinth, may be half the thickness of a column, and their projection (called in Greek ἐκφορά) the same.Reading aeque tantam as in new Rose. Codd. sextantem; Schn. quadrantem. Thus in both length and breadth it will be one and one half thicknesses of a column.