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 Be. hi. Ch. II. MODE OF LIGHTING TEMPLES. 265 o o o o a court, or hypfethron^ in front of the cell, which was lighted through its inner Avail. This seems to have been the temple mentioned by Yitruvius,! whose description has sriven rise to such confusion on this subject. It is decastyle, and the only one to which his words apply, or to which it is possible to adapt such a mode of liGchtino; as he describes. too much ruined to enable us to say exactly in what manner, and to what extent, this mode of lighting was applied to them, though there seems no doubt that the method there adopted was very similar in all its main features. The little Temple of Nike Apteros and the temj^le on the Ilissus, were both too small to require any compli- cated arrangement of the sort, but the Ionic temple of Pandrosus was lighted by Avindows which still remain at the west end, so that it is possible the same expedient may have been adopted to at least some extent in the Asiatic examples. The latter, however, is, with one exception, the sole instance of Avindows in any European-Greek temple, the only other exam]>le being in the very exceptional temple at Agrigentum. It is valuable, besides, as shoAving how little the Greeks wei-e bound by rules or by any fancied laws of symmetry. As is shown in the plan, elevation, and view (Woodcuts Xos. 155, 154. Plan of Temple of Jupiter Olyinpiiis at Athens. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 155. Plan of Erechtheium. (Frora Stuart.) Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 156. Elevation of AA'est End of Ereebtheium. Scale 50 ft. to 1 in. 156, 157), the Erechtheium consisted, properly speaking, of 3 temples grouped together ; and it is astonishing Avhat pains the architect ^ Vitruvius, lib. i. ch. 1.
 * The Ionic temples of Asia are all