ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION* 



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JL. 42. ITpoV u roi ^a, or, as the inscription gives it, ZOIA ; and in this 

 manner the word is properly written (£w/i>i/, i. e. Z^uv^'m. a MS. of 

 Antigonus Carystius. See Bast. Epis. Crit. p. 82. ZjQIA also occurs 

 in an inscription in the Mus. Veron. p. xviii. Zulu is the certain 

 reading of Mr. Elmsley, instead of ZOAA, which Chandler gives in 

 his copy of the Inscription. Z^a signifies the figures in relief on the 

 temple ; in this sense the word occurs in Empedocles, y^x-mois cs 

 gcuottri, not pictis animalibus, but painted figures; see Athen. Schweigh, 

 lib. xii. c. 3. ; and in Diodorus S. Excer. 606. t^uov signifies a figure > 

 " Antiochus employed himself with pieces of mechanism, and with 

 moving by means of them figures of five cubits in height, silvered 

 and gilded, Zax •jnw<*.-m\x ot "' 



L. 45. The sacred olive is said by Apollodorus, (lib. iii.) to be in the 

 Pandroseum ; by Herodotus, (lib. viii.) in the temple of Erectheus ; 

 by Pausanias, (lib. i.) in the temple of Minerva. All these passages 

 are reconciled by considering, that the chapels or buildings were 

 connected together. 



L. 64. ^.TTs^ac. This word is solely applied to the bases of Ionic 

 columns. See I. Pollux. 



L. 65. y Apxl3$uTovc } "unfluted:" £a'£<L<n? is the word used by Aristotle 

 to denote the fluting of a column ; (see Schneider in His. An. iv. c. iv.) 

 In Diodorus S. we find ^tx^va-^ara. employed in the same sense ; they 

 are the strigiles of Vitruvius. See Wesseling, in lib. xiii. 607. " The 

 body of a man, says the historian, when speaking of the temple of 

 Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum, might be fitted in the fluted parts 

 of the columns." 



At this day, we may still see at Girgenti, a portion of the enta- 

 blature, with a Triglyph, and the upper part of one of the columns ; 

 and if we take 18 inches (French), as the breadth of one of the 

 flutes at this portion of the column, and add a sixth for the breadth 

 of one in the lower part, we shall find more than sufficient space for 

 the body of a man. See Quatremere, Mem. 1815. 



In an inscription on one of the Oxford marbles, some columns are 

 called xioveg Kvpfiexxirxi ; these words are translated by Selden, 



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