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after the same model : the length of its cella is but 73 feet, the breadth lQ. 

 The whole length of the portico, which goes round it, 123 feet. It is a Doric 

 building, as is that of Minerva ; and both are of white marble. — About the 

 cornice, on the outside of the temple of Minerva, is a basso-relievo of men on 

 horseback, others in chariots ; and a whole procession of people going to a 

 sacrifice, of very curious sculpture. On the front is the history of the birth of 

 Minerva. — In the temple of Theseus on the front, within side the portico, at 

 the west end, is the battle of the Centaurs ; and at the east end there seems to 

 be a continuation of that history : There are also several figures of women, who 

 seem to be Pirithous's bride, and those other ladies that were at the wedding. 

 On the outside the portico, in the spaces between the Triglyphs, are represent- 

 ed several of the feats of Theseus, most in wrestling with several persons, in 

 which he excelled : all his postures and looks are expressed with great art. 

 Others are monsters, which he is made encountering with, as the bull of 

 Marathon, the bear of Calydon, &c. 



There is a temple of Hercules, a round fabric, only of six feet diameter, but 

 neat architecture. The pillars are of the Corinthian order, supporting an archi- 

 trave, and frieze, wherein are done in relievo the labours of Hercules. The top 

 is one single stone, wrought like a shield, with a flower on the outside, which 

 rises like a plume of feathers. 



The tower of Andronicus Cirrhestes is yet standing; it is an octagon, with 

 the figures of eight winds, which are large, and of good workmanship; and the 

 names of the winds remain legible in fair Greek characters, Apeliotes, Euros, 

 Boreas, Sciron, Zephyros, each wind pointing to its quarter in the heavens ; 

 and the roof is made of little planks of marble, broad at bottom, and which 

 meet all in a point at top, making an obtuse pyramid, of about 32 or 36 sides. 

 In the castle there is a delicate temple of the Ionic order ; the work of which is 

 very fine, and all the ornaments most accurately engraven : the length is Qy 

 feet, the breadth 38. — ^The pillars which remain of a portico of the Emperor 

 Adrian, are very stately and noble: they are of the Corinthian order, and above 

 52 feet in height, and IQ-i- in circumference, and are channelled; 17 of them 

 are now standing, with part of their cornice. The area of the building to which 

 they belong is near 1000 feet in length, and about 680 in breadth. 



Without the town, the bridge over the Elissus has three arches, of solid 

 stone work ; the middlemost being near 20 feet broad. There is still to be seen 

 the stadium, whose length I measured, and found it 630 feet, near to what the 

 precise measure of a stadium ought to be, viz. 625. — Towards the southern wall 

 of the castle, are the remains of the theatre of Bacchus, with the portico of 

 Eumenes, which is near it ; the semidiameter is about 1 50 feet. The whole 

 body of the stage 256. 



