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228 POMPEIANA.
if steps they should be termed, when evi-
dently not proportioned for convenience
of access to the interior, but calculated
rather with a view to the general effect of
the whole structure.
In the temples of Greece, we view
architecture in its purest and most simple
form: in the age of Titus we see that it
had already reached the last period of
complication and decline. To trace the
connecting links is not the intention of
this work, though perhaps, or rather cer-
tainly, the same causes operated through-
out the chain ; namely, the progress of
society, and the changes of religion. The
founders of cities invariably chose the
highest ground for the Hiera of the deity';
while, in the crowded lanes of the lower
town, artificial means were requisite, to
give to the temples of the imported gods
' Virgil, JEn. 5—759, and 7—171.
if steps they should be termed, when evi-
dently not proportioned for convenience
of access to the interior, but calculated
rather with a view to the general effect of
the whole structure.
In the temples of Greece, we view
architecture in its purest and most simple
form: in the age of Titus we see that it
had already reached the last period of
complication and decline. To trace the
connecting links is not the intention of
this work, though perhaps, or rather cer-
tainly, the same causes operated through-
out the chain ; namely, the progress of
society, and the changes of religion. The
founders of cities invariably chose the
highest ground for the Hiera of the deity';
while, in the crowded lanes of the lower
town, artificial means were requisite, to
give to the temples of the imported gods
' Virgil, JEn. 5—759, and 7—171.