Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scotia

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. 

SCOT'IA (σκοτία, τροχίλος). The scotia in architecture; that is, a hollow moulding in the base of a column, between the fillets of the upper and lower torus, which received its name from the dark shadow (σκότος, darkness) cast upon its receding surface by the projecting cushion of the torus, as shown by the tinted portion of the annexed example (Scotia/1.1). Vitruv. iii. 5. 2.

2. A groove or channel cut into the under surface of the corona in the Doric order, and near its edge, the object of which is to prevent the rain water which trickles over the cornice from re-entering underneath it. Vitruv. iv. 3. 6. Marquez. Ord. Dor. p. 47.

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