[4] We place these examples according to their respective proportional heights, beginning with the highest, and descending to the lowest, and note their measurements in _minutes_ rather than in diameters and fractional parts, as being the most direct and convenient mode of comparison. The height of the capital is taken exclusive of the astragal which divides it from the shaft of the column; and as the _expansion_ of the capital upwards has also to be considered, the extreme width of the abacus is also indicated. Height of Diagonal of capital. abacus. Lysicrates example 87' 94' Nerva do. (columns of the Forum of Nerva) 73' 90' Pantheon at Rome 69' 90' Jupiter Stator, Temple of, 66' 97' Tivoli, Temple of the Sibyls, 60' 81' Almost every antique example is marked by something peculiar to itself; wherefore, properly to analyze them and compare them all, would require not only some scores, but some hundreds of drawings, and hundreds might be multiplied into thousands, were we to collect together all the varieties of the descendants of the Corinthian or foliaged-capital column that are to be found in buildings of the so-called Byzantine style, when the original idea of an Order had been entirely lost sight of. In fact, all the compositions that have been produced with the intention of producing a _new_, and what as such ought to be a perfectly distinct Order, congruent in all its parts, have consisted of little more than variations of the Corinthian capital; as if difference in the details of the capital sufficed to constitute a different and quite distinct Order. Properly understood, _Order_ is, if not exactly so, little more than another word for style; and a new style is not to be invented or established, like the alteration from old to new style of the almanac by Act of Parliament. Style must of necessity grow up gradually: the ideas of many minds must contribute to its formation.