according to the narrative inscribed on the freize, in the 
hundred and eleventh Olympiad. This little edifice has 
suffered nothing from the many causes which have contributed 
to lay in ruins the noblest monuments of Athenian taste, but 
is still entire, and may perhaps be considered as the most 
exquisite and perfect specimen of the order'. It is probable 
that the singular building called the temple of the Winds is 
not of a date considerably later; it possesses some peculiarities 
which are not observable in more recent structures, and 
the formation of the roof, while it betrays an ignorance of 
the principle of the arch, proves, at the same time, in a 
remarkable manner the skill and ingenuity of the architect. 
It is mentioned both by Vitruvius and Varro as the work 
of Andronicus Cyrrhestes, but without any information 
respecting his age?. 
Many of the ornamented theatres, so numerous in Asia- 
Minor, were built, in all probability, considerably before 
the Roman conquest: that at Laodicea on the Lycus, and 
that at Patara on the coast of Lycia, are the most remarkable 
among those of the Corinthian orders. 
The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus at Rome was built by 
Domitian, out of the materials of some edifice at Athens 
which had been transported from that city ; and this work 
is worthy of mention, both because its prior destination is 
probably to be referred to the period of which we are 
treating, and on account of the remark of Plutarch, who 
relates that the columns were cut and repolished after their 
1 Stuart’s Athens, vol. i. c. 4. 
2 Vitruv. lib. i. c. 6. Varro de Re Rust. l. iii. c. 5. 
3 Pococke, vol. ii. Ionian Antiquit. vol. i.