Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . %\. POMPEIANA. 229 a town, or where it might be considered expe-dient in their construction to afford the means ofdefence. Each is separate, and provided with necessary such appendages were, may be con-cluded from the accounts left us of the predatorynature of ancient warfare. In modern Greecethese buildings still retain their ancient use, aswell as designation, jru^yog. Galen tells us, thepyrgos and tyrsis were synonymous: that theywere common may be gathered from the passageof Hippocrates, which calls forth the remar
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . %\. POMPEIANA. 229 a town, or where it might be considered expe-dient in their construction to afford the means ofdefence. Each is separate, and provided with necessary such appendages were, may be con-cluded from the accounts left us of the predatorynature of ancient warfare. In modern Greecethese buildings still retain their ancient use, aswell as designation, jru^yog. Galen tells us, thepyrgos and tyrsis were synonymous: that theywere common may be gathered from the passageof Hippocrates, which calls forth the the top was the heliasterion, warm in win-ter, cool in summer. One of these has a shed,to intercept the rays of the sun by day, or dewof the night: another has a strong resemblanceto the motivo of the roof of the choragic monu-ment of Lysicrates at Athens : a third has a ver-tical piece through the apex of the pediment,the germ of the Gothic pinnacle. PLATE LVIII. The advancing colonnade, without a roof, strikes atfirst as being useless; but it was probably
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