The decoration of this order is extremely rich in character: the lower half of the capital has the Corinthian leaves, while the upper half is almost the whole of the Ionic voluted capital added; the cornice has both the Ionic dentils and the Corinthian modillions. The arch of Septimus Severus and the Baths of Diocletian are of the Composite order. CHAPTER XIV. GREEK AND ROMAN ORNAMENT. Greek ornament—as found on the carved mouldings, friezes, acroteria, antifexes, and capitals, or, as in the painted variety, found on vases, plain mouldings, bands, plates, and other surface decorations, or incised on the bronze cistæ and mirrors—was of a severe and refined order, almost all of which had its birthplace in Egyptian and Assyrian forms, that in the first instances were used in a symbolic sense, but under the hands of Greek artists had lost all their former meaning, and were developed and partly transformed into a wealth of purely æsthetic forms. [Illustration: Fig. 310.—Greek Frets.] The simplest forms were frets or the so-called key pattern (Figs. 310, 311, and 315). The word meander is sometimes applied to the Greek frets; this is not correct, as the word implies a curved line, not a rectangular one. [Illustration: Fig. 311.—Greek Carved Fret.] The guilloche, snare-work, or cable ornament, is used on flat bands, and also as the decoration of torus mouldings (Figs. 312 and 313). [Illustration: Fig. 312.—Treble Guilloche Ornament.] The Greeks used the honeysuckle pattern in an endless variety of forms both in carving and in painting, examples of which are at Figs. 314 and 315. The ivy was used very much in borders of their painted vases (Fig. 316). The ogee moulding was usually decorated with the water-leaf and tongue ornament, and the ovolo with the characteristic egg and tongue, and the round fillets with beads and reels. A fine example of this group of decorated mouldings comes from the Temple of Minerva Polias at Athens (Fig 317). [Illustration: Fig. 313.—Double Guilloche.] An elongated type of the egg and tongue comes from the Erectheum (Fig. 318). [Illustration: Fig. 314.—Anthemion (carved), from Apollo Epicurius.] The Greeks seldom used large scrolls in ornament; an exception is the scroll ornament from the roof of the Lysikrates monument, and in the Corinthian cauliculi or volutes (see Fig. 302). The Greek variety of acanthus foliage is seen in the capital from the same monument. [Illustration: Fig. 315.—Greek Border with Fret Bands.]