Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Helix

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HEL'IX (ἕλιξ). The small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital, intended to imitate the tendrils or curling stalk of the vine, ivy, or any parasitical plant, bent down by a superincumbent weight. Each capital is decorated with sixteen (Helix/1.1), two under each angle of the abacus, and two meeting under its centre on each face. Vitruv. iv. 1. 12.

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