. The life of the Greeks and Romans. le of Apollo, the service in which had been, also for a longtime, in the family of the Branchides. This older temple disap-peared in the general destruction of Miletos by the Persians(Olympiad 71, 3), but after the independence of the city wasrestored, in more splendid style, by the Milesian architectsPseonios and Daphnis; it seems, however, never to have beenquite finished. The plan was on the grandest scale ; the facade,consisting of ten columns, was longer almost by two-thirdsthan that of the Parthenon of Athens ; the columns were 6^-feet in diameter by
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. le of Apollo, the service in which had been, also for a longtime, in the family of the Branchides. This older temple disap-peared in the general destruction of Miletos by the Persians(Olympiad 71, 3), but after the independence of the city wasrestored, in more splendid style, by the Milesian architectsPseonios and Daphnis; it seems, however, never to have beenquite finished. The plan was on the grandest scale ; the facade,consisting of ten columns, was longer almost by two-thirdsthan that of the Parthenon of Athens ; the columns were 6^-feet in diameter by 63 feet in height, and were slenderer thanthose of the Artemisin at Ephesos and of other Ionic , the beams were lighter and weaker, as is shown inthe design of the facade (Fig. 32). Through the double colonnade(Fig. 31, A) one enters, first, the pronaos B, which was bounded 4o PSEUDO-DIPTEROS. towards the peristylos by four columns in antis, and the walls ofwhich were adorned by pilasters with very rich Korinthian. Fig. 32. capitals. Through a small room (C), destined either for thekeeping of treasures or for staircases, one entered the cella (D),most likely open in the middle, and enclosed at the sides by colon-nades. There seems to have been no opisthodomos surroundedby walls. 13. The dipteros, as we have seen, was only an enlargementof the peripteros ; the pseudo-dipteros, on the other hand (the lasttemple with a square cella in the list of Yitruvius), is a kind ofmedium between peripteros and dipteros, and is, therefore, men-tioned by Yitruvius between the two. The explanation of thename is similar to that of the pseudo-peripteros; it means a templewhich has the appearance of a dipteros without being one inreality, the pseudo-dipteros seems to have two colonnadeswithout having them; or, to say the same in different words, itsexternal plan is exactly like that of a dipteros, but that thesecond row of columns between the exterior one and the wall ofthe
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