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 m ROMAN ARCIIITECTURE. Part 1. observed that Pompeii was situated nearer to Magna Graecia than to Rome, and was indeed far more a Greek than a Roman city. Very slight traces of any Etruscan designs have been discovered there, and scarcely 205. External View of the Basilica at Treves. .any buildings of the circular form so much in vogue in the capital. Though the ground plan of this basilica remains perfect, the upper parts are entirely destroyed, . v -J, AiA^wl "Ci ' . and we do not even know for certain whether the central portion was roofed or not; my own impression is, however, that it certainly was so, and liglited by a clerestory like the cellae of Greek temples ; as, however, it had no peristyle, it may possibly have had win- dows in the upper gallery, and the clerestory windows were probably not countersunk like those in the Greek temples. There is a small square building at Otricoli, which is generally supposed to be a basilica, but its object as well as its age is so uncertain that nothing need be said of it here. In the works of Vitruvius, too, there is a description of one built by him at Fano, the restoration of which has afforded employ- ment for the inccenuitv of the admirers of that worst of architects. 206. luteriial View of the Basilica at Treves.