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together, and formed sixteen, a still more perfect num-ber. The foot measure gave rise to this, for subtractingtwo palms from the cubit, four remain, which is thelength of a foot; and as each palm contains four digits,the foot will consequently contain sixteen, so the dena-rius was made to contain an equal number of asses. If ittherefore appear, that numbers had their origin from thehuman body, and proportion is the result of a due ad-justment of the different parts to each other, and to thewhole, they are especially to be commended, who, indesigning temples to the gods, so arrange the parts thatthe whole may harmonize in their proportions andsymmetry. The conditions of temples are distinguishedby their different forms. First, that known by the appella-tion in antis, which the Greeks call mos ev irapacrracn ; then

the PEOSTYLOS, PERIPTEROS, PSEUDODIPTEROS, DIPTEROS,

hypjEthros. Their difference is as follows. A templeis called in antis, when it has antse or pilasters in frontof the walls which enclose the cell, with two columnsbetween the antse, and crowned with a pediment, propor-tioned as we shall hereafter direct. There is an exampleof this species of temple, in that of the three dedicatedto Fortune, near the Porta Collina. The prostylostemple is similar, except that it has columns instead ofantse in front, which are placed opposite to antse at theangles of the cell, and support the entablature, whichreturns on each side as in those in antis. An exampleof the prostylos exists in the temple of Jupiter andFaunus, in the island of the Tyber. The amphipros-tylos is similar to the prostylos, but with this addition,that the columns and pediment in the front are re-peated in the rear of the temple. The peripteros hassix columns in the front and rear, and eleven on theflanks, counting in the two columns at the angles, andthese eleven are so placed that their distance from thewall is equal to an intercolumniation, or space betweenthe columns all round, and thus is formed a walk around