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I.. 166. At^rtxiot, " the stones of the jK'dinieiit," the 'Atro . It is 

 worthy of remark, that this word is found in an inscription on the 

 entablature of a temple at Antasopolis in Egypt ; it is not therefore 

 appropriated solely to the triangular form. Ilamilton's^gyp. 395. 



L. 186. OS TOT HTnEP©TPOr. The uTre^Su^ov is described by Kuhnius 

 as tiiat jiart, " supra siiperdlium sub corona, viceni quodammodo zophori 

 gerois." Pollux, i. c. 8. JMr. Howes translates it " lintel" in Odys. vii. 

 in the description ol" the palace of Alcinous. (On Books, t. i.) A 

 balcony over the door was called to Trfovyjv toZ UTrspfiufoL/ ; it is the 

 (TTfi^lo of the later Greeks. See Salm. H. A. 155. 



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