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DODECASTYLE (Gr. & eica, twelve, and vrIXos, column)
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DODECASTYLE (Gr. & eica, twelve, and vrIXos, column), the architectural term given to a temple where the portico has twelve columns in front, as in the portico added to the temple of Demeter at Eleusis, designed by Philo, the architect of the arsenal at the Peiraeus.