Ionic order cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart. Since Vitruvius, a female character has been ascribed to the Ionic (in contrast to the masculine Doric). The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius. The only tools required to design these features were a straight-edge, a right angle, string (to establish half-lengths) and a compass. Below the volutes, the Ionic column may have a wide collar or banding separating the capital from the fluted shaft (as in, for
Doric Greek "ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "an". Temporal adverbs in "-ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "-te". Locative adverbs in "-ei" ~ Attic/Koine "-ou". The aorist and future of verbs in "-izō", "-azō" has "x" (versus Attic/Koine "s"). Similarly "k" before suffixes beginning with "t". Argive Cretan Laconian Magna Graecian Doric Aetolian-Acarnanian Delphic-Locrian Elean Epirotic Doric Greek Doric, or Dorian, was an Ancient Greek dialect. Its variants were spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese as well as in Sicily, Epirus, Southern Italy, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea and some cities on the south east coast of Anatolia. Together with Northwest Greek,