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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(another) in the Temple of Jupiter Olympius. " Sed
Athenis Octastylos and in Templo Jovis Olpmpii. "

This octastyle, we are certaiu was the Parthenon,
proved by Mr. Stuart himself, on the authority of Sir Geo.
Wheler and Doctor Spon, and, still more satisfactorily,
by his own discovery of the little circles, which are,
doubtless, the peripheries of the small double columns ;
proved, I say, by these testimonies to have been origi-
nally hypethre, yet not being, with only 8 columns,
an adequate example of the hypethre, just described,
which had 10 ; Vitruvius, citing it as an hypethre,
guarded us from mistaking it for a decastyle, saying,
no example at Rome, but at Athens, there is the oc-
tastyle, and the Olympian Jupiter.

This Olympian Temple, at Athens, completed, Vi-
truvius informs us, in his preface to his 7 book, by the
Roman architect, Cossutius, Mr. Stuart again, himself,
very ingeniously ascertained, from the 17 standing co-
lumns, to be decastyle, and has left us in possession of
the method, he took, to discover it, in a plate at the
end of his 1 chap. 2 vol. which demonstrates, this Tem-
ple had 10 columns in front, and conclusively proves it
to be an adequate example of the hypethere described
by Vitruvius : who asserts expressly it was to have 10
columns in front.

Now Mr. Stuart, 1 chap. 2 vol. at top of 7 page,

says,......."the Temple of Jupiter, at Athens, which

I have inadvertently said was an Octastyle, when it
certainly was a decastyle. I was led into this error by
Philander, and those editors of Vitruvius, who since
his time have, as before observed, followed his conjec-
ural emendations ; and who, instead of, out an Odas*
tyk at Athens, and in the Olympian Temple, tezà, but an
M m 3 Octastyle