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Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 73

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ize powerfully impressed the imaginationof the ancients, and Livy speaks of it as the one templeappropriate to the greatness of the god whom it cele-brated. According to Penrose, it measured 354.225 feetin length, and 171.16 in breadth; and the peristyle con-sisted of 120 columns, of which 20 are…

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