576 PELOPONNESUS. 
CI i AP ' Juventianus 1 . Indeed it is wonderful, considering 
the notice given by him of the Ruins here, that 
the site of them should afterwards be lost. 
The materials of the temple are of a white 
limestone*', and the workmanship of the capitals, 
the fluting of the columns, and of other orna- 
mental parts of the structure, are extremely 
beautiful. Not a single pillar remains erect: 
the columns, with their entablatures, have all 
fallen. The building, by its ruins, appears to 
have been of the Corinthian order ; but there are 
remains of other edifices in its neighbourhood 
where the Doric order may be observed, and 
where the columns are of greater magnitude 
than at this temple. We measured some of the 
shafts of columns here that were only two feet 
nine inches in diameter: and this agrees with 
a remark made by Pausanias, who states that 
the dimensions of the Temple were not extra- 
ordinary*. The capitals are for the most part 
destitute of the rich foliage of the acanthus, 
although finished with exquisite taste and in 
(1) " Journey into Greece" Book vi. p. 438. Land. 1682. 
(2) Called by Pausanias tifat Xi* (vid. p. 112. Coriiithiac. c. 1. 
cd. Kuhnii} ; but this is an expression often applied by him where 
marble has been used. 
(3) T tXM <> Jtrt p&yifof v ttti^nt, K. r X. Ibid. 
