remembered, and the nature of the triumph perpetuated,
the victors represented them draped, and apparently suf-
fering under the burthen with which they were loaded,
to expiate the crime of their native city. Thus, in their
edifices, did the antient architects, by the use of these
statues, hand down to posterity a memorial of the crime
of the Caryans. Again; a small number of Lacedae¬
monians, under the command of Pausanias, the son of
Cleombrotus, overthrew the prodigious army of the Per¬
sians at the battle of Platea. After a triumphal exhibition
of the spoil and booty, the proceeds of the valour and
devotion of the victors were applied by the government
in the erection of the Persian portico; and, as an appro¬
priate monument of the victory, and a trophy for the
admiration of posterity, its roof was supported by statues
of the barbarians, in their magnificent costume; indi¬
cating, at the same time, the merited contempt due to
their haughty projects, intimidating their enemies by fear
of their courage, and acting as a stimulus to their fellow
countrymen to be always in readiness for the defence of
the nation. This is the origin of the Persian order for the
support of an entablature; an invention which has en¬
riched many a design with the singular variety it exhibits.
Many other matters of history have a connexion with archi¬
tecture, and prove the necessity of its professors being
well versed in it. Moral philosophy will teach the archi¬
tect to be above meanness in his dealings, and to avoid
arrogance : it will make him just, compliant and faithful
to his employer; and what is of the highest importance,
it will prevent avarice gaining an ascendancy over him:
for he should not be occupied with the thoughts of filling
his coffers, nor with the desire of grasping every thing