incenftî, as. we iuppofêtf, and alfo a. piece of wax-taper, which
probably had been lighted in honour. :of the .faint and author o f
the wonder j. hist I iour Swifc uirforitunately carrying his. town
candle too far in, the fmoke blackened, the marble, and defiroyed
the phasnomenon. »
T h e . building oppofite to the temple has ferved as 3 foun?
dation for. a . fquare lofty tower- o f ordinary .mafonrÿ. ; The
columns o f the. front are walled up, and theentrance is; by a low^-
. ^ron Sate hi thé fide. It is now ufed as a place o f confinement
for delinquent? j but in 1676 was a powder magazine. In the
wall ‘o f a rampart near it are fbnae fragments o f exqurfite
Iculpture, reprefenting the Athenians fighting with the Ama^onsj.
Thefe belong to the freeze, which was then fiandiag. )3Ih the
fécond century, when Pàufanias lived, much of the paintiegwas
impaired by age, but fome remained, ' and the |h.yedt&;*were
chiefiy taken from, the Trojan ftory. T h e ’.trace? arc. .fine**
vanilhed. m
T h e pediment of the temple o f Victory, with that pf tHe
oppofito wing, is d’efcribed as remaining; in 16764. but on bach
building a fquare tower had been eredted. One !of the fiep? in
thé front , df the prppyléa was entire,; with the four column?^
th,eir entablature and the pediment.. The po'rtiçoy, tp which the
fiye door-ways belonged, confifted of;a, large fquare room, roofed
with flab's ©f marble, which, were laid on two great, marble
beams and-fufiained by. four beautiful columns. Thefe Were
Ionic, the proportions Of this order beft flatting that purpofgj as
taller than the Doric the reafon it was likewife preferred in the
- promos of the temple of Vidtory.: T h e . roof pf the;.propylée
after Handing above two thoufand years, was probably deftrpyed,
with all the pediments,, by the Venetians in 1687, when they
battered the caftle in front, firing, red-hot .bullets, and .took it,
but were compelled to refign it’ again to the Turks in the following
year. The exterior walls, and, in particular, a fide of the
temple o f Vidtory, retain many marks of thejr hoftilities. ,
P a u sa n ia s
P a u s a n ia s was really, or* pretended to be, ignorant, to
whom the eqqeftrian ftatues ’before the wings' o f fchemropylea
belonged’. One or the pedeftalsf which remains, wilt fupply
tins deficiency. The .whole is immured,. except the front j
which has been much, battered by cannpn-lhpt ; and on' this,
my Companions, .while .biified in meafuring and drawing, dilco-
yered rifome. .Cf^eeJ?. letters, high above the* ground- After
repeated,trials, iaf,which I .was afiifted by a pocketTt^lefcope, I
procured .tfie. infcription, which may be thus tranflatefij ‘ ‘ The
% oepptd ha^e ^ej^dfjpd.Marc^sr ^grippa^j|pifci.pf^..Lucijis^ thripf,
VpGPnful, the*friend of •paip^.*’,. The third confulate of Marcus
Agrippafjfi|s. on the year; o f , JRome, feven hundred and twenty
fix; ', when his colleague was the Cfim^-here: recorded. Caius
Csefaf (^cfaytfanus- the.feyepth time conTuf-wnowas dignified by
the Romari rijyfe. memorable year with the title of
Apgufiup by which he was diftinguifhed after,the fix teen th .of
February. The coniulate. commenced, on,sthe Caiend? of firft
pf, Japuara..- . Jtjfofipw^; that the pedeftai: wa‘$;j infcrihed between
this, davy^and the. fixte.en,tli. of,,the fucceedipg month •, of, at
faxthefi:, rafbre th.e.notification of this, fignalandTecent honour
Iiad a^riyedin'Gmpcei ,for afterwards to have pmitt,ed jthe name
Auguftqs, would have been an affront both to Cains and to the
lenate. The two friends,, it is likely, were joined, in the
Athenian decree, and as Agrippa. graced the approach to .the
W m m m m ^s£t hand,- Caius was on the right. .. The
theatre; in thg. Qgramicu.s was called for fome time, Mi? Agripptum*
•probably as a : compliment .to this Agrippa. No dog or goaf
syas fufiered to enter the propylea.
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