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ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION. 



unpolished and unfluted.* The wall 1 facing the south wind is 

 unpolished, excepting in the portico m opposite the Cecropium. 

 The antae n without are unpolished throughout, excepting in the 

 portico opposite the Cecropium. 



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

 All the columns are unfluted excepting those upon the wall. 

 The whole plinth | q is unpolished all around. 

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

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

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

 feet lengths in the portico in front of the door-way. 

 The altar of the Thyecus f is not placed. 



* ApctfitiwTos and appa(3SwToj, for it is written both ways, signifies not jluted. Chandler 

 reads ugx^orog, in which he has been followed by the learned author of the Prolegomena in 

 Homerum. 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. 



% 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 xp>]7ri; is the footing, or plinth, of this 

 wall. 



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

 Toii youXov Ai'flou. 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 yuv\o; xfto; 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 away from the 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-Propylasa at Eleusis, there is a gutter-stone of 

 the kind here alluded to. 



|| IIpoo-TOf<.iov, 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 house, fauces, vi. 4. 



1j This word, of which the two first letters are wanting, was in all probability ©TEXO. 

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

 letters remain perfect. Tw ficuptZ ru> tou fio^o'ov a/Soi •n-evTeAeixoi, x. t. A. 



