262 Report of the Labours of 
To leave nothing unaccomplished, M. Huyot has added to his 
drawings a very copious memoir, and which he hopes to have the 
honour to read to the class, in which collecting all the notices 
seattered through writers, he gives a sketch of the history of 
Preeneste, and treats of the ancient names of that city, its origin, 
of the various spots of ground which it occupied, and of its suc- 
cessive extensions; of the monuments with which it is embel- 
lished, and of the date of their construction: lastly, he describes 
the modern city of Palestrina, and the remains of the Temple of 
Fortune, the special object of his study. 
This last part is the most interesting for the art, because it 
contains the proper notions for determining the style and cha- 
racter of the architecture of the monuments of ancient Preneste. 
Although the most ancient, perhaps, of those which we know in 
Italy, they are those only in which we remark the simultaneous 
employment of the three orders of arehitecture. 
In short, according to the fragments found in the lower part 
of the city, we find that the Doric order was employed in the 
lower part of the Forum: its fluted column with sharp ridges and 
without base, and the profile of its capital, resemble closely those 
of the Temple of Hercules at Cori, and the portico which is 
known by the name of Pabulariuwm, the remains of which are 
seen on the Capitol. A stylobatum still preserved in its place, 
in the upper part of the Forum, exhibits also the Doric character, 
the frieze of its entablature being adorned with triglyphs and 
wreaths, executed precisely in the style of those which we see on 
a sarcophagus of the Scipios. 
The Ionic order entered into the decoration of the edifices 
dependent on the Temple of Fortune: its capitals, if we are to 
judge from-those which have been found, were very badly seulp- 
tured, and nearly of the same kind with those of the ancient 
portico which is still seen at Perousis.. 
As to the Corinthian order, it is that which we meet with most 
frequently in the buildings at Praneste: although repeated ten 
times, it is remarkable that its proportion and ornaments are 
always the same: its chapter is decorated with acanthus leaves 
turned up; and friezed like those of the capital of the Temple of 
the Sybils at Tivoli, and its height is a single diameter only, con- 
formably to the doctrine of Vitruvius. The cornices of this or- 
der are profiled in a very simple manner, and exhibit no kind of 
ornament, 
With respect to the construction, all the walls, either of the 
terraces or of the body of the buildings, are executed in the 
opus incertum, composed sometimes of immense blocks of stone 
cut in irregular polygons, and placed on each other without ce- 
ment; sometimes of thin stones mixed and blocked up with lime: 
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