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style colonnade, with two wings, and sur4
mounted by a pediments Whether the
metopes and tympanum were adorned
with sculpture, cannot now be àscer*
tained ; as the pediment and entablature
have been destroyed, and the intercolum-?
niations built up with rubbish, in order to
raise a battery of cannon on the top*
-Although the plan of this edifice contain
Some deviations from the pure taste that
reigns in the other structures of the Aero*
polis, yet each member is so perfect in
the details of its execution, that Lord
Elgin was at great pains to obtain a Doric
and an Ionic capital from its ruins. On
the right hand of the Propylsea, was a
temple dedicated to Victory without
wings ; an epithet to which many expla-
nations have been given. This temple
was built from the sale of the spoils won
in the glorious struggles for freedom at
Marathon, Salamis, and Platsea. On its
ftize were sculptured many incidents of
style colonnade, with two wings, and sur4
mounted by a pediments Whether the
metopes and tympanum were adorned
with sculpture, cannot now be àscer*
tained ; as the pediment and entablature
have been destroyed, and the intercolum-?
niations built up with rubbish, in order to
raise a battery of cannon on the top*
-Although the plan of this edifice contain
Some deviations from the pure taste that
reigns in the other structures of the Aero*
polis, yet each member is so perfect in
the details of its execution, that Lord
Elgin was at great pains to obtain a Doric
and an Ionic capital from its ruins. On
the right hand of the Propylsea, was a
temple dedicated to Victory without
wings ; an epithet to which many expla-
nations have been given. This temple
was built from the sale of the spoils won
in the glorious struggles for freedom at
Marathon, Salamis, and Platsea. On its
ftize were sculptured many incidents of