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It was a prostylos with six Corinthian granite columns, with marble 
capitals and bases; and there were two windows and a door on the long side. 
Altogether the ground plan of this temple indicates a very peculiar 
construction and different from all hitherto in use. 
To this time, also, belongs the building of the renowned pyramid of 
Cestius, and the so called Temple of Honor and Virtue above the fountain 
of Egeria, and termed by some also a temple of Bacchus and the Muses. 
#1. 15, fig. 12, shows the elevation, and jig. 13 the longitudinal section 
of this temple, which is now the Church of St. Urban alla Caffarella. 
This structure has in front 4 columns, separated from each other by the 
space of 3} diameters. They are of the Corinthian style, with imperfect 
capitals, 2 feet 4 inches in diameter, 22 feet high, supporting a 
miserable brick wall with a gable at the top. The portico is now walled up, 
and arranged with windows and buttresses. The ceiling of the interior is a 
cylindrical vault, covered with stucco and disposed in octagonal panels. 
It rests upon a finely ornamented frieze, and the brick walls of the inside 
are divided by pilasters. For the rest, it seems as if the temple, as it now 
stands, had been built of ancient materials, but was not itself of ancient 
times. 
Thus far we have only considered the architecture of the period in the 
city. We turn now to the works outside the city. 
First we refer to Tivoli, the charm of whose landscape made it much 
sought as a country retreat. Here were the country seats of the illustrious 
Romans, and there yet exist considerable traces of the villa of Meecenas. 
Quinctilius Varro, too, had here a villa of which some foundation walls and 
vaults yet remain. Here were the villas of Horace and Propertius, and 
there are relics of the superb country house of Plautius still to be seen. In 
the town itself there are two temples built next each other above the falls 
of the river Anio. Theone is a round peripteros of which the greater 
number of columns, and the walls of the cella, with the door and one of the 
windows, as well as the substructure, remain. This temple is supposed to 
have been sacred to Vesta, and pl. 16, figs. 9 and 11, give general views of 
it. Lg. 10 gives a section, and jig. 12 the ground plan. It is in the 
Corinthian style, and the columns, whose bases are seen in pl. 19, fig. 19, 
are of travertine covered with stucco. The cella is built of volcanic 
stone in irregular work (opus incertum, p. 24). The other standing 
by it is a little prostylos pseudoperipteros in the Ionic style, and is regarded 
as a temple of the Tiburtine Sybil, contemporaneous in structure with the 
other. PJ. 16, fig. 38, gives its ground plan. Of the great temple of the 
Tiber, consecrated to Hercules, and in whose halls Augustus often sat in 
judgment, there are some remains in the chief church of the town. Of the 
antiquities of Przeneste there are only a few remains of the Forum and of 
the basilica belonging to it. 
In Cori, the old Cora, an ancient mountain town in Latium, there are the 
remains of two temples besides those of the Cyclopean walls. Of the one 
dedicated to the Dioscuri there yet exist two remarkable Corinthian 
columns; of the other, known under the name of the Temple of Hercules, 
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