Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin Marbles: With an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (London, 1837)

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" evidently proves them to he the remains of a
temple which had ten columns in front, and
twenty-one in flank; and that it had two
ranges of columns on each side: the extent of
the front has been one hundred and seventy-
one feet, and the length of the flank more
than four hundred feet; so that, to describe
this building in the language of Vitruvius, we
must say, it has been Decastyle, Peripteros,
and Hypsethros, of great dimensions, or a
Gomplete example of the most sumptuous and
stately of all the aspects of temples, which in
the first chapter of his third book lie has enu-
merated and defined." The south side of the
Peribolus, or surrounding wall, is sufficiently
discernible, and measures six hundred and
ejghty feet ten inches.
Delphinium, The Temple of Apollo surnamed Delphi-
hius, is said to have been built in the age of
Theseus; near it was a statue of the Pythian
Apollo.
Temple of " The Temple of Venus, situated in the pait
thl^dens. of the city called " the gardens," was render-
ed remarkable by a statue of the goddess,
sculptured by Alcamenes.