B00 K: VII. 
The first of these is the Ionic temple of Diana of Ephesus, begun by Ctesiphonte the 
Gnosion, and his son Metagenes, and which afterward Demetrius the priest of the same Diana. 
and Peonius the Ephesian, were appointed to complete. Next, the Ionic temple of Apollo 
at Miletus, which the same Peonius and Daphnis the Milesian constructed. Then, the temple 
of Ceres and Proserpine at Eleusis, in the Doric manner, by Jetinus: the cell of this was 
of a vast magnitude, and had at first no exterior columns, to adapt it the better for the per¬ 
formance of the sacrifices; but afterward, when Demetrius Phalereus governed at Athens 
Philon erected columns in the front, thereby making it a prostyle temple; the vestibulum 
being by this means enlarged, allowed more room to the sacrificers, and added dignity to the 
edifice. Lastly, the temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens, of ample dimensions, and of the 
Corinthian symmetry and proportions, as before mentioned, the architect of which is said to 
have been Cossutius, of whose writings none are to be found: nor from Cossutius only are 
such writings wanting, but also from Caius Mutius, by whose great skill the cells of the Marian 
temples of Honour and Virtue, and the symmetry of the columns and epistylium, designed 
according to the just rules of art, were completed. Had this work been built of marble, so 
that it might derive as much grandeur from its costliness and magnificence as it does of 
excellence from art, it might be named with the first and most excellent works. 
It appears then that there were formerly some great architects of our own nation, as well 
as that of the Greeks, and several even in our memory; yet as they have published but few 
precepts, I thought it not proper also to remain silent, but to explain the different parts of 
the art in different books: as therefore I have in the sixth book written of the rules that 
regard the building of private houses; in this, which is the seventh, I fhall treat of their 
finishing, and the means by which they may be made beautiful and substantial. 
(4*) This temple, with those of Minerva at Priene, 
and Bacchus at Teos, mentioned in the former part of 
this proem, are the three temples, the remains of which 
have been published in the Ionian Antiquities, under the 
auspices of the society of Dilletanti; by whose zeal for 
the improvement of the fine arts, and at whose expence, 
these valuable antiquities have been collected. 
(5*) Livy, b. 37. says, two separate temples of Honour 
and Virtue were built by Marcellus, the priests not per¬ 
mitting one temple to tyo divinities. Vitruvius has be¬ 
fore mentioned them at b. 3. ch. 1. where, as here, he 
adjoins the word Mariana. Perrault has from this word 
supposed the temples to have been built by Marius, but 
this supposition has no authority. 
Galiani understands them to have been situated at or 
near the trophies of Marius, yet these trophies are sup- 
posed to have been in the sth region of Rome, by the 
Esquiline hill, and the temples were on the Aventine hill 
near the gate Capena. See Nardini, page 163. So that 
there must have been some other reason for using the word 
Mariana that has not come to our knowledge. 
Pliny, 35. 10. says, these temples were rebuilt by Vel-