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in a gold-laced coat and waistcoat; or the Venus of Praxiteles in 
stiff stays and petticoats. We are sorry to observe that the practice 
we allude to does not appear to be the result of any occasional 
caprice or fancy, but of a generally established system ; for the colours 
of the several parts do not seem to have materially varied in any two 
instances with which we are acquainted. The same colours are 
used for the same members of the architecture in so many of the 
tombs at Cyrene, that we can scarcely doubt that one particular 
colour was appropriated by general consent or practice to each of the 
several parts of the buildings. The triglyphs, for instance, with their 
capitals, were invariably painted blue in all the examples we know of 
where their colours are still remaining ; and the regulae and mutules, 
together with their guttm, were always of the same colour, as was 
also the fillet which we have described as intervening between the 
capitals of the triglyphs and the cymatium below the corona. The 
soffit of the corona was also painted blue, in the parts which were 
occupied by the mutules ; and the space between the latter, together 
with the scotia, were at the same time painted red : the sides of the 
mutules, and the upper part of the moulding which we have men- 
tioned as running along the tops of the metopes, together with the 
tcenia, or fillet, below the triglyphs, were equally of a red colour. 
Patterns were at the same time very frequently painted, chiefly in 
blue and red, on the cymatia of the entablature and of the plinths of 
the capitals ; and this was equally the case when the patterns were 
cut as well as when they were put in in outline. The central annulet 
was usually painted blue and the upper and lower ones red ; and 
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