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L. 166. Aierixtot, " the stones of the pediment," the 'Aero . It is 

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

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

 appropriated solely to the triangular form. Hamilton's iEgyp. 395. 



L. 186. OS TOI HTnEP0TPOL The uVepflupov is described by Kuhnius 

 as that part, " supra supercilium sub corona, vicem quodammodo zophori 

 gerens." Pollux, i. c. 8. Mr. Howes translates it " lintel" in Odys. vii. 

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

 balcony over the door was called to 7r$oZx°v tov uVspfJupcu ; it is the 

 (TTvfixo of the later Greeks. See Salm. H. A. 155. 



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