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a statue of the Poetess Teksilla, the MANUELLA CHAP. 
SANCHO of her day; who, like the modern 
heroine of Saragossa at the head of a band of 
female warriors, repelled from the walls of the 
city the enemies of her country, when the 
Lacedemonians attacked Argos. " She was re- 
presented," says Pausanias 2 , " standing upon a 
pillar, with the books of her poetry scattered 
at her feet, in the act of regarding a helmet 
which she was about to put upon her head." 
And when the Spanish Telesilla, who has so 
nobly followed the example offered by her 
Grecian predecessor, shall have a monument 
consecrated to the memory of her illustrious 
achievements, her countrymen may find in this 
description a classical model for its design. The 
site of the Hieron is now occupied by a Greek 
chapel, but it contains the remains of columns 
whose capitals are of the most antient Corinthian 
order ; a style of building unknown in our 
country, scarcely a model of it having ever 
been seen in England; although it far exceeds 
in beauty and simplicity the gaudy and crowded 
foliage of the later Corinthian. The temples of 
Venus being generally of the Corinthian order, 
(2) Vid. Paus. in Corinth, c. 20. pp. 156, 157. ed. Kuhnii. 
