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C H.A    P T   E R      VIII. 
Of  the %emple of dntovinus'and Faufli'na at Rome. 
H I S temple flands' on the place that :was the Roman Forum, and which is.
i+ow named 
Campo Vaccino, . M, Aurelius caufed it to be built in honour of Antoninus
his predeceffor, 
ana 1   nal-+nthbt Phatemnnri' Aa., +Nmi-  ixrhrm w hp nmcl ,  nf   Tn this
temnle i s now'r the 
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church of faint Laurence in miranda.  I have made five plates of it: the
firfi is the plan, which 
fhows_ that*there remains only a  art of the wall on each fide the body of
the temple, and the 
columns of the porch.  It t.fill appears to, have been a proftyle, hexaflyle
and pycnoftyle, having 
fomewhat of the euftyle, becaufe the middle intercolumnation is wider than
the refl. It is not indeed 
exadly pycnoftyle,, thofe intercolumnations being fomewhat more than a diameter
and half of the 
column. The diameter does not vary in the columns of this edifice, as in
feveral others: for they 
are all four feet fix inches feven lines. 
Palladio makes the diameter of the columns too fmall by an inch and half,
and the middle 
intercolumnations too narrow by two inches and a half. 
T    H E fecond plate contains elevations of the front and flank of the temple.
 In the front- 
elevation the fecond band of the architrave is retrenched and funk to the
plain of the firft in 
the breadth of three intercolumnations, in order to receive the fecond line
of the infcription: it 
appears that the letters, which were probably of bronze, have been taken
away; their places being 
only hollowed in the marble.. The diminution of the columns commences from
the bottom.' I caufed 
no lower fearch than the bafes of the columns. The whole cornice of the front
is carried away, as 
well as the incrufted marble that formed the pilafters, of which nothing
has remained but the bafe 
and capital, both Of white marble, +as is the :entablature.  The columns
are of a jafpered marble 
which fome take to be artificial.; but I believe it natural. 
Palladio puts on the front of the temple ornaments in the frieze, inflead
of the infcription: he 
does not retrench the fecond band of the architrave, which is joined to the
firft to admit the fecond 
lineof the infcription; but makes the aftragal between the bands to pafs
on without interruption. 
He makes the column with the bafe and capital too high by a foot, and the
entablature too low by 
three inches three eighths. 
T H E third plate reprefents at large the bafe of the columns and face of
the capital with the 
entablature ; where -it is to be noted that over the abacus of the capital
a fmall fillet has been 
put, to hinder the weight of the architrave from breaking the abacus. On
the architrave the aftragal 
which feparates the bands, is joined by a curve to the lower. In the cornice
the bottom of the ogee 
under the great cymatium projeds no farther than the face of the corona,
and is feparated from 
it only by the ornaments there. 
Palladio puts on the bafe of the columns between the orl and upper torus,
a fmall funk-fillet, 
which is not there. On the capital he makes the channellings of the flems
wreathed, and carries up 
the angular volutes into the abacus.  On the cornice he omits between the
afiragal and gola reda a. 
little funk-fillet under the dentil. This funk-fillet is what the mafons
call a hook-fcratch, becaiufe 
in cornices of plafler, it is made with an iron-hook.  The joiners, in mouldings
of wood alfo, 
frequently praife it, when they make an aftragal under a quarter-round, the
better to diftinguih 
them; and name it the line of the barley-corn : nor has it a bad effed, though
its examples be 
rare in antiquity. Palladio marks not the little flowers between the leaves
of the gola reda juft 
mentioned; and makes the eggs rife to the top of the quarter-round, having
forgot a little re- 
ferved fillet that is there. He makes the bottom of the ogee under the great
cymatium to proje& 
over the corona. He makes the diameter of the top of the column too fmall
by one part ; the 
Aftragal there too projeding by two parts one fourth on each fide over the
top of the column; 
the capital too high by two parts feven twenty-fourths, the great leaves
by two parts and a half; 
the 
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