subject, and formed it into one complete
treatise, and this principally, because I saw that many books in this
field had been published by the Greeks, but very few indeed by our
countrymen. Fuficius, in fact, was the first to undertake to publish a
book on this subject. Terentius Varro, also, in his work "On the Nine
Sciences" has one book on architecture, and Publius Septimius, two.

15. But to this day nobody else seems to have bent his energies to this
branch of literature, although there have been, even among our
fellow-citizens in old times, great architects who could also have
written with elegance. For instance, in Athens, the architects
Antistates, Callaeschrus, Antimachides, and Pormus laid the foundations
when Peisistratus began the temple of Olympian Jove, but after his death
they abandoned the undertaking, on account of political troubles. Hence
it was that when, about four hundred years later, King Antiochus
promised to pay the expenses of that work, the huge cella, the
surrounding columns in dipteral arrangement, and the architraves and
other ornaments, adjusted according to the laws of symmetry, were nobly
constructed with great skill and supreme knowledge by Cossutius, a
citizen of Rome. Moreover, this work has a name for its grandeur, not
only in general, but also among the select few.

16. There are, in fact, four places possessing temples embellished with
workmanship in marble that causes them to be mentioned in a class by
themselves with the highest renown. To their great excellence and the
wisdom of their conception they owe their place of esteem in the
ceremonial worship of the gods. First there is the temple of Diana at
Ephesus, in the Ionic style, undertaken by Chersiphron of Gnosus and his
son Metagenes, and said to have been finished later by Demetrius, who
was himself a slave of Diana, and by Paeonius the Milesian. At Miletus,
the temple of Apollo, also Ionic in its proportions, was the undertaking
of the same Paeonius and of the Ephesian Daphnis. At Eleusis, the cella
of Ceres and Proserpine, of vast size, was completed to the roof by
Ictinus in the Doric style, but without exterior columns and with plenty
of room for the customary sacrifices.

17. Afterwards, however, when Demetrius of Phalerum was master of
Athens, Philo set up columns in front before the temple, and made it
prostyle. Thus, by adding an entrance hall, he gave the initiates more
room, and imparted the greatest dignity to