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to the architects, for whom he proposed to travel. *M. Le Roy gives a very satisfactory plan of the ceilingof the Temple of Theseus : he supposes the tiles usedhere to resemble those mentioned by Pausanias to beat the Temple of Jupiter Glympius. Pausanias says,that the author of the contrivance of covering edificeswith marble was Byzes of Naxos , who lived about580 years before Christ. Livy says, that part of theTemple of Juno Lavinia in Abruzzo was unroofed,and the marble tiles were employed in decorating theTemple of Equestrian Fortune, newly erected by theCensor Fulvius (B. C. 170 years) ; the Senate consi-dering it a sacrilege to Juno, the tiles were carriedback; but an artist of sufficient skill could not befound to replace them in their original position, andthe tiles were therefore left in the area of the temple.

Pausanias , speaking of the Propylea, says, that itwas covered with roofs of marble, which exceeded inbeauty, and size of the marble, all that lie had beforebeheld. Sir George Wheeler says, that the Templeof Minerva was covered outwardly with great planksof stone, of which some are fallen down, and are tobe seen in the mosque. Sir George Wheeler describesa little square temple, which he found at Mylasa inCaria , to be covered by great stones, projecting oneover the other, resembling on the outside a pyramidof steps. Dr. Pococke says, on the entablature ofthis temple there is raised a very grand covering oflarge stones laid across in four tiers, one over theother, every tier setting in so as to make a sort of

* In 1817, the Dilettanti Society published a work, called theUnedited Antiquities of Attica, in which the mode of coveringwith tiles the temples delineated in the work, is very particularlyset forth. See Stuart’s Antiq. of Athens , and Le Roy’s Mon. dela Grece.