. The life of the Greeks and Romans. he plan of the temple. It was a dipteros173 feet broad by 359 (XLL, 20) justly de-signates it as unique. Ithad ten columns on thenarrow and twenty on thelong sides; on the nar-row sides it had three rowsof columns instead of thetwo usually found in thedipteros, as may still beseen from the the two other orders ofthe temple, the pseudo-dipteros (§ 13) and thekypaethros (§ 11), therewere, according to Yitru-vius, no specimens inRome. The temple ofYenus and Roma, how-ever, to which we shallhave to return (§ 66), un-doubtedly showed the es-
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. he plan of the temple. It was a dipteros173 feet broad by 359 (XLL, 20) justly de-signates it as unique. Ithad ten columns on thenarrow and twenty on thelong sides; on the nar-row sides it had three rowsof columns instead of thetwo usually found in thedipteros, as may still beseen from the the two other orders ofthe temple, the pseudo-dipteros (§ 13) and thekypaethros (§ 11), therewere, according to Yitru-vius, no specimens inRome. The temple ofYenus and Roma, how-ever, to which we shallhave to return (§ 66), un-doubtedly showed the es-sential characteristics ofthe pseudo-dipteros ; andYitruviuss own descrip-tion (III., 2) proves thatthe just-mentioned templeof Jupiter Olympius was, like the Parthenon in its vicinity, ahypaethros. 64. The forms of Greek architecture thus adopted by theRomans were considerably modified by them. These modifica-tions were of a twofold kind. They either originated in thereaction of the Italian on the Greek temple, in which case the. Fi«. 327. THE TUSCAN ORDER. 307
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