. The life of the Greeks and Romans. same direction. To the Republic was reservedthe honour of completing the national sanctuary. 31. HoratiusPulvillus, who was consul together with P. Valerius Poplicola inthe third year of the Republic, is said to have inaugurated thetemple. It stood in its original form for 413 years, when it wastotally destroyed by was rebuilt by Sulla,essentially unaltered withregard to the originalmeasures and proportions,although modified as toarchitectural details, as ap-pears from Tacituss expres-sion : iisdem rursus ves-tigiis situm est ( 72).* The d
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. same direction. To the Republic was reservedthe honour of completing the national sanctuary. 31. HoratiusPulvillus, who was consul together with P. Valerius Poplicola inthe third year of the Republic, is said to have inaugurated thetemple. It stood in its original form for 413 years, when it wastotally destroyed by was rebuilt by Sulla,essentially unaltered withregard to the originalmeasures and proportions,although modified as toarchitectural details, as ap-pears from Tacituss expres-sion : iisdem rursus ves-tigiis situm est ( 72).* The description,therefore, of the later tem-ple by Dionysios of Hali-karnassos (iv.,pp. 251, 260)applies to some extent to theoriginal Tarquinian struc-ture. Fig- 325 gives theplan, Fig. 326 the view, of the temple according to L. Caninas * It was again burnt down during the Vitellian riots, and rebuilt by this new structure had also been destroyed by fire it was rebuilt, and inau-gurated for the fourth time, by 302 THE CAPITOLINE TEMPLE. conjectural designs. In Fig. 325 we recognise the above-men-tioned divisions of the temple into a front and a back half, the formerof which, turned towards the south, is enclosed by columns withouta wall, while the latter contains under a common roof the threecellae of the Capitoline deities to whom the temple was dedi-cated. The centre cella belonged to Jupiter, the two smaller onesto left and right being assigned to Minerva and Juno diminishing the dimensions of these two latter cellae, Caninahas succeeded in making his reconstruction to some extent tallywith that part of Dionysioss description according to which thetemple had three rows of columns in front and only two on each
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