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CATHETUS (Gr. K60ero3, a perpendicular line)
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CATHETUS (Gr. K60ero3, a perpendicular line), in architecture the eye of the volute, so termed because its position is determined, in an Ionic or voluted capital, by a line let down from the point in which the volute generates.