Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Parastas

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. 

PARAS'TAS, PARAS'TATA, PARASTAT'ICA (παραστάς, παραστάτης, παραστατικὴ). A flat column or pilaster, used to decorate the angular terminations of a square building, where it has two faces, as in the annexed example (Parastas/1.1) of the temple of Pandrosus at Athens, in which the parastas is seen behind the last figure on the extreme left; or placed against the walls of the cell (cella), with one flat face to correspond with the opposite column which supports the entablature of the colonnade. Vitruv. v. 1.

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  Parastas/1.1