Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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iag Tuscan Rotundas, which for the present I shalj
supersede, he gives variations of Tuscan angular Tem-
ples, "of the same symmetries, but of different dispo-
sitions, exemplified, he tells us, in the Temple of Castor
in the circus of Flaminius, in that of Jupiter avenger,
and more precisely in that of Minerva, by adding the
columns at the shoulders of the pronaos right and left."
The meaning of this passage is, that in ordaining these
Temples, the architect, after disposing 4 columns in
front, (as Vitruvius orders, in the first description,)
omitted the 2 columns,- which, w the other plan, stand
between the 2 middle front columns, and the 2 antae
of the walls of the middle cell; and only added the other
2 columns at the shoulders of the pronaos, which stand,
one on the right hand, and ope on the left, between the
angular column and the ante of the outer wall of the
little cell. And the pronaos being open on the two
sides, as well as on the front, Vitruvius, for distinction,
called the sides, right and left, the shoulders of the
pronaos.• The variation then, consists in this, that the
external columns, only, are herein retained^ 6in number,
and the area of the pronaos, left clear. Then Vitruvius
continues " Hoc autem genere primo facta aedes, uti est
Castoris in circo, Athenis in arce Minervas, et in Attica
Sunio Palladis. Earum non alias sed eaedem sunt pro»
portiones. Cellae enim longitudines duplices sunt ad
latitudines, et uti reliqua exisoaa, quœ soient esse in.
frontibus, ad latera sunt translata."

In English, " In this manner, like the castor in the
circus, was a Temple at first erected to Minerva in the
fortress at Athens, and to Pallas at Sunium in Attica :.
the proportions in nothing different : for the cells are

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