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columnce striatce ; but Reinesius proposes another interpretation. Mar. 

 Ox. 512. Ed. Maittaire. 



L. 81. I,(P'yiKi!r;ioug, " the dove tails, tenons of metal ;" Wilkins : 

 a-(P'^x.ufioc Si(rfJi.o<; ; Hesychius : ironvra avvi(r(pyinu(nv, " omnia COmpegit 

 si7nuL" Dioo;. L. in v. Anax. . ■ 



L. 85. 'Opo(pioiiovg, X. " ceiling stones." This word is only found in the 

 present inscription, and in a dialogue of the 12th century, entitled 

 Tiniario, which may be seen in the Notice des MSS. du Roi. ix. 



L. 86. Lessing objects to the origin given by Vitruvius, lib. i. to the 

 name Caryatides, (the ivOPAI of the inscription,) as applied to 

 columns ; he does not think the town of Caryce was of consideration 

 enough to join the Persians in their invasion of Greece. But we are 

 expressly told by Herodotus, lib. viii. "that some Arcadians sided with 

 the Persians ; and there was Cai-yas, a town in Arcadia, a borough of 

 the Pheneatas, as well as in Laconia. The fact, therefore, men- 

 tioned by Vitruvius may be true ; only we should read with Larcher, 

 (ad Herod, lib. viii.) civitas Pheneatarum, instead of civitas Pelopotinesi. 

 The Caryatides of Praxiteles are mentioned by Pliny, lib. xxxvi. c. 5., 

 as well as those which were placed by the sculptor Diogenes on 

 columns to decorate the Pantheon of Agrippa ; but no instance re- 

 mains of any building, belonging to the pure age of Athenian 

 architecture, in which we find them used, except in the Pandroseum 

 of Athens. 



L. 120. 'E}e.77i770ir![/,svx. This word implies " finished work." " The 

 Propylfea were finished, l^s7rot7,6ri;" Heliodorus in Harpocratio in v. npo, 

 Herodotus says, " the stones of the Pyramids were Jin/shed off?'' 

 This is the translation of Dr. Hales. 



L. 148. TiTaprou ri[A.i7Tod'iov, "three feet and a half." The meaning of 

 this numeral form among the Greeks has not always been correctly 

 explained ; thus, t'sto-^tov Tif/.i.roixa.vTov, is three talents and a half; but 

 TTivTs vjuiTukxvTx, are not four talents and a half, as Kuhnius translates 

 the words ; they mean only two talents and a half. See Hemster. in 

 Poll. ix. c. 6. note 88. and the Addenda. 



