BED-MOULDINGS.—This may be understood as a collective term for all the mouldings beneath the corona or principal projecting member of a cornice, which, without bed-mouldings, would appear too much like a mere shelf. CABLED fluting, 60. CAPITAL.—The capitals of the columns constitute the principal and most obvious indicial mark of the respective Orders. For those of each of the Three Classes or Orders a certain character conformably with the rest of the Order is to be observed; but that attended to, further restriction is unnecessary. Between several examples, all decidedly referable to one and the same Order, very great special differences occur, and there might easily be a very great many more. Although the capital itself is indispensable, it is so only _æsthetically_, and not out of positive necessity. The necessity is only artistic: decoration of the kind there must be, but the express mode of it is one of those matters which should be left to design, to which it properly belongs. Capitals are just as legitimate subjects for the exercise of taste and invention as any thing else in decorative design. The capital is only an ornamental head to the column, and therefore admits of being as freely designed as any other piece of ornament, on the conditions of its being accordant in character with the rest of the Order, and of forming an agreeable transition from the shaft of the column to the architrave. CARYATIDES.—Anthropostylar pillars or human figures (usually female ones) employed instead of columns to support an entablature. Such figures ought always to be perfectly free from all _attitudinizing_, and to appear to support their burden without any effort. Some very matter-of-fact critics object to caryatides as being at the best only beautiful absurdities; as if statues so applied were particularly liable to be mistaken for living persons subjected to a more severe punishment than that of being posted up in a niche, or on the top of a building. COLUMNIATION, 68. CORINTHIAN, or Third Order, 53; Lysicrates example, 55; Tivoli, 65; ‘Composite,’ or Ionico-Corinthian, 62. CORNICE.—Doric, 21; Ionic, 42; Corinthian, 61. CORONA.—That part or member of a cornice which projects out over and protects the bed-mouldings (see _Bed-Mouldings_), and throws off the rain from the rest of the entablature. CYMATIUM.—A moulding whose section or profile is convex below and concave above. See _Mouldings_. DADO.—The general plane surface of a pedestal or stylobate between the upper and lower mouldings.