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after stating his arguments, and very conclusively, to
prove, from the documents of Vitruvius collated with
the reports of Wheler and Spon, that the Parthenon
was an hypethros, he thus continues, "another objec-
tion may be deduced from what Vitruvius himself has
said (book 4, chap. 7,) where, enumerating several devi-
ations from the usual form of Temples, he (Vitruvius)
tells us, Temples are also built of other kinds, ordered with
the same proportions, but differently disposed, as thai of
Castor in the circus of Flaminius, and that of Vejovis be-
tween the two groves ; also, but more ingeniously, that of
Diana Nemorensis, with columns added to the right and left
on the shoulders of the pronaos ; but this hind of Temple.,
like that of Castor in the circus, was first erected, in the
fortress of Athens to Minerva." So far Mr. Stuart.
Now this variation of the first Tuscan Temple,
described by Vitruvius, who says it was at first, primo,
erected to Minerva, Mr. Stuart has mistook for the Gre-
cian Temple of Minerva Parthenon. And, in confirma-
tion of this charge, he, again, in his explanation of plate
% calls the hexastyle portico of the Parthenon, it's pro-
naos ; and says, "in this the disposition of the columns
may help us to explain an obscure passage of Vitruvius,
where, speaking of some deviations from the usual man-
ner of constructing of Temples" (the reader has seen
these were Tuscan Temples,) "he informs, that columns
were sometimes added to the right and left on the
shoidders of the pronaos ; " (but this happens to be a
regular hexastyle portico, and no addition whatever be-
tween the angular column, and the angular anta of the
wall.) He continues, " and that this addition, of which
he instances some examples, was first practised at
Athens, in the Temple of Minerva. " (true, and as he
himself
after stating his arguments, and very conclusively, to
prove, from the documents of Vitruvius collated with
the reports of Wheler and Spon, that the Parthenon
was an hypethros, he thus continues, "another objec-
tion may be deduced from what Vitruvius himself has
said (book 4, chap. 7,) where, enumerating several devi-
ations from the usual form of Temples, he (Vitruvius)
tells us, Temples are also built of other kinds, ordered with
the same proportions, but differently disposed, as thai of
Castor in the circus of Flaminius, and that of Vejovis be-
tween the two groves ; also, but more ingeniously, that of
Diana Nemorensis, with columns added to the right and left
on the shoulders of the pronaos ; but this hind of Temple.,
like that of Castor in the circus, was first erected, in the
fortress of Athens to Minerva." So far Mr. Stuart.
Now this variation of the first Tuscan Temple,
described by Vitruvius, who says it was at first, primo,
erected to Minerva, Mr. Stuart has mistook for the Gre-
cian Temple of Minerva Parthenon. And, in confirma-
tion of this charge, he, again, in his explanation of plate
% calls the hexastyle portico of the Parthenon, it's pro-
naos ; and says, "in this the disposition of the columns
may help us to explain an obscure passage of Vitruvius,
where, speaking of some deviations from the usual man-
ner of constructing of Temples" (the reader has seen
these were Tuscan Temples,) "he informs, that columns
were sometimes added to the right and left on the
shoidders of the pronaos ; " (but this happens to be a
regular hexastyle portico, and no addition whatever be-
tween the angular column, and the angular anta of the
wall.) He continues, " and that this addition, of which
he instances some examples, was first practised at
Athens, in the Temple of Minerva. " (true, and as he
himself