DEFILE OF TEMPE. 'SQ\ 
treatise of Blasius Carj/ophiln^, commonly called chap. 
Biagio Garofolo, a Neapuiitan, " De Marmoribu.^ _ . 
Antiquis." It was printed at Utrecht in 17 43. 
This writer satisfactorily proves that the marble Mnrmor 
calied Verde-anlico by the Italian lapidaries is, 
in fact, the Marmor Atracium ^ ; and the Atracian 
marble was called QsttocXtj }.i0og, by Julius 
Pollux*. It is mentioned by Paul Silentiarim, 
among the marbles placed by Justinian in the 
church of St. Sophia at Constantinople \ The 
(3) Carynphil. de Marmor. Antiq. p. 9- Ultraject. 1743. 
(4) " Atracium marmor, quod PoUuci QtrrccXn x'Jo; dicitur." Ibid. 
(5) It should therefore seem that the Atracian, rather than the 
Lacedcemonian green marble, was used for the ornaments of this 
edifice. The author, who has bestowed some paius upon the subject, 
was once induced, from an observation of Pliny, to believe that the 
green columns in St. Sophia were of Lacedamoniun marble. (See 
Toinii of Alexander, p. 42. Note k. Cumhrid^e, 1805.) The 
Lacedcrmon'-an vvas one variety of the Verde-untico ; but it was green 
and black, instead of green and white. Caryophilus, after citing 
Silentiarius, says, " De octo columnis quae posuit tTustinianus in tem- 
plo Sancta* Sophise, Silentiarius intelligit •jr^afflvous <rou; a^io(uviJi.u.<rTous, 
admirandas prasini coloris, ut habet Codinus (de Orig. Constantin. 
p. 65. ed. Paris) Divus Gregorius Nyssenus (p. 399) de Q)i<r(raXo7s ff-ruXeit, 
columnis Thessalicis, ad exornandas gymnasiorum portions, primus, 
quod novimus meminit. E\ eodem marmore Basilius Macedo octo 
parJter ponendas curavit pro oruandis Basilicae aedibus, quas extruxit 
(Const. Porphyron, in Bas. p. 203) Constautinopoli l« xlStu ©ErraX^s 
ri TO <!f^a,aioi XQ^f^" "Ex^sij^Tr. ex Thessalico lapide, qui prasini est 
coloris, hoc est viridis." According to Caryophilus, the marbles used 
by the Greeks amounted to forty-one varieties ; and the information 
is too valuable to be withheld. They were as follow : 
1 . Hv- 
