The Ten Books on Architecture, 3.3.5

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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5In araeostyles we cannot employ stone or marble for the architraves, but must have a series of wooden beams laid upon the columns. And moreover, in appearance these temples are clumsy-roofed, low, broad, and their pediments are adorned in the Tuscan fashion with statues of terra-cotta or gilt bronze: for example, near the Circus Maximus, the temple of Ceres and Pompey’s temple of Hercules; also the temple on the Capitol.

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