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ft.42,in.{).43713, which added to ftl4,in.3.14571 ¡s=ft.57
and | of an inch, for the width of the eel!; which is only
ft.5,in.5.42 less than the cell of the Parthenon: and when
it is considered, that we read of noparticularorextraordi-
nary size of the statue in the Ephesian cell, comparable
to the magnificent statue, by Phidias, in the Parthenon,
the difference of ft.5, in the width of the cell of the
Ephesian Temple, cannot be deemed an object sufficient
to impede the admission of that Temple into the number
and rank of hypethres.
Sir Geo. Wheler, who in the year 1676, visited
Athens, discovered, in the Parthenon-cell, the columns
mentioned by Vitruvius, in his description of the hype-
thros, as forming peristyle-porticos round the cell ; and
doubled in altitude; with the square area in the middle
open to the sky : the Greek-Christians covered this area
with a roof, when they converted this Parthenon into a
christian church; but destroyed not those peristyle co-
lumns, which Sir Geo. says, supported galleries on the
first range on each side, and over the entrance end of the
cell; and this first range comprised, he says, 22 columns,
and the range right over the first, had 23, the odd
column standing over the entrance beneath.
This odd column, no doubt, had place over the grand
entrance to the cell in the Ephesian Temple also, which
certifies the accuracy of Pliny's record of 127 columns,
which Mr. Windham, unable or unwilling to falsify the
record, attempts toexplain, as already noticed, by separat-
ing centum by a comma, from vigiliti septem, concluding
there could not have been an odd column : and Mr. King,
mistaking this correction, places the comma between
viginti and septem. But both these corrections are
superseded by the following ordination and dispositionof
the cell and two pronai, which both conform to the
documents
ft.42,in.{).43713, which added to ftl4,in.3.14571 ¡s=ft.57
and | of an inch, for the width of the eel!; which is only
ft.5,in.5.42 less than the cell of the Parthenon: and when
it is considered, that we read of noparticularorextraordi-
nary size of the statue in the Ephesian cell, comparable
to the magnificent statue, by Phidias, in the Parthenon,
the difference of ft.5, in the width of the cell of the
Ephesian Temple, cannot be deemed an object sufficient
to impede the admission of that Temple into the number
and rank of hypethres.
Sir Geo. Wheler, who in the year 1676, visited
Athens, discovered, in the Parthenon-cell, the columns
mentioned by Vitruvius, in his description of the hype-
thros, as forming peristyle-porticos round the cell ; and
doubled in altitude; with the square area in the middle
open to the sky : the Greek-Christians covered this area
with a roof, when they converted this Parthenon into a
christian church; but destroyed not those peristyle co-
lumns, which Sir Geo. says, supported galleries on the
first range on each side, and over the entrance end of the
cell; and this first range comprised, he says, 22 columns,
and the range right over the first, had 23, the odd
column standing over the entrance beneath.
This odd column, no doubt, had place over the grand
entrance to the cell in the Ephesian Temple also, which
certifies the accuracy of Pliny's record of 127 columns,
which Mr. Windham, unable or unwilling to falsify the
record, attempts toexplain, as already noticed, by separat-
ing centum by a comma, from vigiliti septem, concluding
there could not have been an odd column : and Mr. King,
mistaking this correction, places the comma between
viginti and septem. But both these corrections are
superseded by the following ordination and dispositionof
the cell and two pronai, which both conform to the
documents