594 ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION. 



unpolished and unfluted. * The wall' facing the south wind is 

 unpolished, excepting in the portico "' opposite the Cecropium. 

 The antas " without are unpolished throughout, excepting in the 

 portico ° opposite the Cecropium. 



The bases f " of all the columns are unfluted in the upper part. 

 All the columns are unfluted excepting those upon the wall. 

 The whole plinth \. " is unpolished all around. . / : " 



Parts unpolished of the exterior wall. Four feet lengths of the 

 gutter-stone §,' VIII in the entrance || . . . . four feet lengths 

 i ' next the pilaster .... four feet lengths near the statue .... four 

 feet lengths in the portico in front of the dooi'-way. 

 The altar of the Thyecus H is not placed. 



■* ApajSSojToj and ajJp'a/SSwTOf, for it is written both ways, signifies not Jiutcd. Chandler 

 reads agagS^To;, in which he has been followed by the learned author of the Prolegomena m 

 Homeriini. Upon submitting my reading of the word to that profound and elegant 

 scholar, he expressed his conviction of its propriety. 



f The upper torus of the bases are found to have been fluted in a manner similar to 

 the shafts of the columns. 



X The columns of the western front, and the statues supporting the south portico of the 

 building, are raised upon a podium or low wall; the xprjwi; is the footing, or plinth, of this 

 wall. 



§ Chandler here reads SOAATLOLIOS, but the true reading is, TO AATLO LI0O, sc. 

 TOO yauXou Xi'Oou. The first letter has a mark below it such as is found below the initial 

 letters in many of the lines of the inscription, which gives it the appearance of the ancient 

 ^. The yauAoj Xi'^o; was, perhaps, the stone forming the cistern or trough, into which the 

 water from the salt-spring, or well, in the Pandroseum, flowed ; or, more probably, the 

 gutter-stone which conveyed the water rising from the spring awaj- from tlio building; 

 because of its being under the head of the parts unpolished of the exterior wall. Along 

 the wall in the flank of the temple of Diana-Propylffia at Eleusis, there is a gutter-stone of 

 the kind here alluded to. 



II ITpoo-TO/xiov, the opening between the door-jambs. As the windows of the building 

 were metaphorically termed the eyes, so the door-way was called the mouth. Vitruvius, 

 who preserves the same kind of metaphor, calls the passage leading from the door-way to 

 the atrium, or court of the home, fauces, vi. 4. 



f This word, of which the two first letters are wanting, was in all probability 0TEXO. 

 This may be inferred from a passage towards the end of the inscription in which all the 

 letters remain perfect. Tw ^wfj.M rdu tou $uri^oov xlSoi ■stevtsXs'ixoi, x. t. A. 



