UROBOLIO MATRIS DEUM MAGNAE IDAEAE |
| QUOD FACTUM EST EX IMPERIO |
| MATRIS IDAEAE DEUM |
| PRO SALUTE IMPERATORIS CAESARIS |
| TITI AELII |
| ADRIANI ANTONINI AUGUSTI PII PATRIS PATRIAE |
| LIBERORUMQUE EJUS |
| ET STATUS COLONIAE LUGDUNENSIS |
| LUCIUS AEMILIUS CARPUS SEXTUMVIS |
| AUGUSTALIS ITEM DENDROPHORUS |
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| VIRES EXCEPIT ET A VATICANO |
| TRANSTULIT ARAMET BUCRANIUM |
| SUO IMPENDIO CONSECRAVIT |
| SACERDOTE |
| QUINTO SAMMIO SECUNDO AB QUINDECEMVIRIS |
| OCCABO ET CORONA EXORNATO |
| CUI SANCTISSIMUS ORDO LUGDUNENSIS |
| PERPETUITATEM SACERDOTIS DECREVIT |
| APPIO ANNIA ATILIO BRADUA TITO |
| CLODIO VIBIO VARO CONSULIBUS |
| LOCUS DATUS DECRETO DECURIONUM. |
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The _Maison Carree_ is not however, quite square, being something more
in length than breadth; it is eighty-two feet long and thirty-seven and
a half high, exclusive of the square socle on which it stands, and which
is, at this time, six feet above the surface; it is divided into two
parts, one enclosed, the other open; the facade is adorned with six
fluted pillars of the Corinthian order, and the cornice and front are
decorated with all the beauties of architecture. The frize is quite
plain, and without any of those bas-reliefs or ornaments which are on
the sides, where the foliage of the olive leaf is exquisitely finished.
On each side over the door, which opens into the enclosed part, two
large stones, like the but-ends of joists, project about three feet, and
these stones are pierced through with two large mortices, six inches
long, and three wide; they are a striking blemish, and must therefore
have been fixed, for some very necessary purpose--for what, I will not
risque my opinion; it is enough to have mentioned them to you. As to the
inside, little need be said; but, that, being now consecrated to the
service of GOD, and the use of the order of _Augustines_, it is fi