Bright days in sunny lands . GIRGENTI AND TAORMINA 169 comes discolored in a few years, and even their marblesthe Greeks covered up with paint. And paint hadthis advantage, that it could be renewed, and the ob-ject covered freshened and made lively to the eyeagain, whenever the treasury of a temple would permitof such expenditure. A few hundred yards to the southwest stands theTemple of Concord, of the same form and slightlylarger than that of Juno. These and all similar ancienttemples were built in the form of a parallelogram, thefront toward the rising sun. Half a millenium of yearsafter thi
Bright days in sunny lands . GIRGENTI AND TAORMINA 169 comes discolored in a few years, and even their marblesthe Greeks covered up with paint. And paint hadthis advantage, that it could be renewed, and the ob-ject covered freshened and made lively to the eyeagain, whenever the treasury of a temple would permitof such expenditure. A few hundred yards to the southwest stands theTemple of Concord, of the same form and slightlylarger than that of Juno. These and all similar ancienttemples were built in the form of a parallelogram, thefront toward the rising sun. Half a millenium of yearsafter this was dedicated, it became a Christian church,for which reason it is now in a remarkable state ofpreservation. All its thirty-four columns are standing,and hence it is a stately, solemn and splendid ruin. At another walk of three hundred yards is theTemple of Hercules, the same from which Verres, inCiceros day, attempted to steal the statue of that godby night, but was prevented by infuriated citizens. Ihave never seen a rui
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