Simpson, F. M. (Frederick Moore), 1855-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 121
senting the eight winds, whilstbelow are sun-dials carved on the wall. In the interior, cut inthe marble floor, was a clepsydra, or water-clock, for telling thetime if it were night, or if the sun were not shining. Similarclocks seem to have been common at the time of Augustus, asVitruvius, the… … rholo: Hhomaides. Fig. 54.—Chokagic Monument of Lysicrates, Athens. [To face p. 82. CHAPTER Y. GREEK ARCHITECTURE {CONTINUED). Lighting of Temples. The method of lighting the temples has for many decades beena vexed question. Various suggestions, all ingenious and someplausible, have been made from…
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