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to think the temple was more antient, and that 
Agrippa only adorned it with marble, and added the 
portico. But the infcription on the freze, “ M.. 
** Agrippa L. F,. Cof. tertium fecit,” feems to refer 
to the whole. And Pliny, enumerating the molt 
magnificent buildings in Rome, fays, “ Pantheon 
ct Jovi ultori ab Agrippa fadtum ; cum Theatrum 
“ ante texerit Romas Valerius Odienfis archite&us, 
ft ludis Libonis (3).” If the latter part of this paflage 
alludes to the dome of the Pantheon (as it feems to 
do), it will imply, that Agrippa built it. In another 
place (4), Pliny calls this building Agrippa’s Pan- 
theurm Now, temples of this form were ufually 
peripteres ; that is to fay, encompafled with co- 
lumns (.5), as the two temples of Veda; but fuch a 
colonnade to this building (fuppofing the entablature, 
to reach up to the top of the wall) could not con lift 
of fewer than twenty-fix columns of 9 London feet 
in diameter; which, with their entablature, mud. 
have cod much more than the whole building, as it 
now Hands. Therefore, it feems as if no columns 
were at fil'd intended on the outfide, and that the 
portico was an after-thought. 
This temple is faid to have been burnt in that 
great conflagration, which happened in the reign of 
Titus (6); and again by lightning, in the thirteenth 
year of Trajan (7), and to have been redored. by 
(3') Fliny, lib. xxxvi. c. 15. 
(4) Ibid. c. 5. 
(5) Vitruvius, lib. iv. c. 7. 
(6) Xiphilin. in Tito. Suetonius likewife mentions this fire; 
but does not fay what buildings were burnt by it. Titus, c. 8. 
(7) Eufebius in.Chronico, 
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