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Rh Pine. 61. Pixodorus discovers marble near Ephesus, 289; his name changed to Evangelus, 290. Planets, 257 jf.; their retrograde movement, 260 /. Plataea, battle of, 7. Plato, 195, 251 ; rule for doubling the square, 252. mid, 189. Plinthium (sun dial), 273. TivfUfMTixbv, 283. Po, 231. Podium of theatre, height of, 148. Pollis, 199. niXot (pivots of heaven), 257. Polus (star), 267. Polycles of Ephesus, 70. Polyclitus. 11. 69. Polyidus. 199. 310. Polyspast (hoisting machine), 288. Pompeian pumice, 47. Pompey, colonnades of, 154; temple of Hercules, 80. Pontic wax. 216, 217. Pontus, 214. 220, 231, 236. Poplar. 60. Pormus, 199. Posidonius, 241. Pothereus (river), 20. Pozzolana, 46 /. Praxiteles, 199. Pressing room, 183 /. Priene, 103; Temple of Minerva at, 11, 198. Primordial substance, 42. Prison, location of, 137. Proconnesus, 289. Pronaos, 114 jf., 120. Proportions, 72, 174 /.; of circular temples, 123 /.; of colonnades, 154 /.; of columns and intercolumniations, 78 ff., 116; of the Corinthian order, 106 /.; of doorways of temples, 117 jf.; of Doric temples, 109 Jf.; of the Ionic order, 90 jf.; of rooms, 176 jf. Propriety, 14 jf. Proscaenium of Greek theatre, 151. Proserpine temple of Corinthian order, 15; temple of, 200. TIp&s way (cXiJua (sun dial), 273. IlioAt T& liTTopot/jtm (sun dial), 273. Prostas, 186. Prostyle, 75. Proteus, daughters of, 239. Prothyra, 188. Protropum (wine), 236. nporpiryTjrijj (star), 265. Pseudisodomum, 52. Pseudodipteral temple, 75, 78, 82. Pseudoperipteral temples, 125. Pteroma,82, 114. 125. Ptolemy. 196. 197; Philadelphus, 197. Public buildings, sites of, 31 /. Pump of Ctesibius, 297 /. Purple, 213, 219; substitutes for, 220 /. Puzzuoli, 218. Pycnostyle temples, 78 /.; proportions of columns in, 84. Pyrrus, 199. Pythagoras, 42, 130, 225, 251, 269; right triangle of, 252 /. Pytheos, 11, 109, 198, 199. Pythian games. 251. Quarries of Grotta Rosa, Palla, Fidenae, Campania, Umbria, Picenum, Tivoli, Amiternum, Venetia, Tarquinii, Lake of Bolsena, Ferento, 49, 50. Quicksilver, 215 Jf. Quirinus, temple of, 78. Quiver (sun dial), 273. Rainwater, 229 Jf. Ram, battering, 309 /.; Hegetor'g, 314 /. Ram (constellation), 266. Raven (constellation), 268. Raven, a machine of no value, 310 /. Ravenna, 21, 61, 83. Reduction of columns, 114. Refraction explained, 175. Resin, soot of, used to make black, 218. Resonant sites of theatres (Imrxpvrrtt), 153. Retaining walls, 190 /. Reticulatum opus, 51. Retrogression of planets, 261. Rhine, 231. Rhodes, 55 /., 167, 219, 220; length of shadow of gnomon at, 270; siege of, 316/. Rhone, 231. River (constellation), 268. Rivers rise in the north, 231. Rome, 63, 64, 78. 80, 145, 217; site of, deter- mined by divine intelligence, 174; length of shadow of gnomon at, 270. Romulus, hut of, 40. Roofs, of mud, 39 /.; timbers of, 107; of Tuscan temples, 122; of circular temples, 124. Rooms, proportions of, 176 Jf.; proper ex- posure for, 180 /.; should be suited to station of the owner, 181 /. Round Building at Delphi, 198. Salmacis, spring of, 54. Salpia in Apulia, 21. Sambuca illustrates effect of climate on voice, 171. Samos. 12, 103, 263, 269. 273; Doric temple of Juno in, 198. Sand, 44/.,48. Sandarach, 214; made from white lead. 219. Sardis.53. Saroacus, 199.