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)F THE TEMPLE OF 'ORTUNA VIRILIS AT ROME. 
jeur de Chambray makes the column with the bafe and capital together, too
high by eight 
iree quarters; thebafe too low by threeIfourths of a part, the plinth being
toor high by a 
The lower torus is too low by a part one twelfth, the orl over it too high
by the fixth 
rt, the fcotia too low by the twelfth of a part; the upper orl and upper
torus a re each too 
the fourth of a part. 
CHAPTER                   VII. 
Of   the  Te'mple of    Peace   at   Rome. 
H I S temple is near the arch of Titus., It was begun by the emperor Claudius*
Ve'fpafiau 
finifhed it; and, when hq had fubdued Judea, caufed the rich fpoils he had
brought from, 
the temple of Jerufalem to be depofited there.' This was the greateft and
moft magnificent 
of Rome, as may be judged by whatfill is landing. 
e made -two plates of it; the firl' contaifning the plan and two different
profiles o..what 
with the elevation ofone of the columns. It appears by the plan and profiles
that this 
was fifty-fix fathoms long, by forty-three broad. On the front there was
a lobby or porch 
readth of the temple. This porch had five entrances, of' which the three
middle led diredly 
part of the temple which I call the nave; the other, two dire&ly to thofe
which I call the 
s. The vault of the nave relied upon eight great columns fet againft uprights
wh'ich fupportvd 
'ge cradle-vaults 'covering three receffes or chapels, of which was compofed
each of the low 
In the middle recefs of the low fides, as well as at the end of the nave,
were large niches nine. 
wide. Thefe niches have in the coving compartments of flucco in like manner
as the cradle- 
the'chapels that have not large niches, have two rows of arched windows,
three in a row-: 
h chapel'was a large'window above five fathoms broad. In the plan what is
not filled with 
iot higher from the floor than fixteen or feventeen feet: I have taken for
the floor the top of 
idations of the walls. The nich-part in the middle chapel feems to have been
added after the 
was finithed, becaufe it is plain that the wall continued as in the other
chapels by the vefliges 
les there remaining. 
column I have drawn is the only one that remains; it flands now before the
church of faint 
ajor, whither pope Paul V. caufed it to be tranfported, and there the image
of the Virgin 
,e to be placed upon it. The column is of white' marble all of one piece;
its diameter at 
tom is five feet eight inches one quarter, its height without the bafe and
capital forty-nine 
ee inches; the bafe, which is alfo of one piece; is two feet eleven inches
two thirds high. 
i,, ,m;ifqte Ar,, -h- leAs dire-lv to the low fides in die norch- -he trts
two qxreat niches 
in the ends of th a t porch, inflead of'the arches there, which are no higher
than the three.. arches, in 
the chapels.  He places, behindthe chapels at the two ends, little chambers,
of which I have'feen 
no vefhge.'In the circular part of the middle chapel of the low fides, he
puts but three niches, two 
round and one fquare  and there are nine, all fquare.  He makes the nave
too narrow by eight 
inches and a half, the chapelsnot deep enough by five feet ten inches One
quarter, and not wide 
enough by three feet eight inches and a half.  The openings that make the
communication of the 
chapels, are too narrow by fix inches: the arches that'he draws in'the porch,
are too narrow by three 
inches. He gives not thicknefs enoughto the walls; that of the porch and
that between the porch 
and the temple being too thin by oneinch three quarters, that between the
chapels and the porch 
by feven inches, and that between the chapes by four inches one third: the
niches on the fides of 
the chapels are too narrow by four inches. On the profile he omits, in tth
low fides, the five winddws that are over the nine niches, of which he has
put but three, as I 
already obferved.' In thefe fame chapels he marks the compartments of the
cradle-vaults to the very. 
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