Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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V. DIPTERAiL and PSEUDODIPTERA,, 0CTA- VI. IIHPAETHRAL, DECASTY'LE, of the CorinSTYLE, of the Ionic order. To save space, the one thian order.
dide of the cut represents half of the dipteral temlple, the other side half of the pseudodipteral.
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cella fi'om the opisthodomus.; c, apartnients for the
The Dipteros may be considered as a Peripter)os, keeper of the temple.
increased in size and magnificence by the addition
of another rosy of pillars along each side; the Every decastyle temple was also hypaethral, but
Pseudodipteros as a Perlpteros with the side co- there wrele also octastyle and even hexastyle hylumns moved outwards over the space of one column paethral temples.
and intercolumniation, so as to allow of eight columns A question has lately been raised whether there
in front. Vitruvius, who describes the latter first, ever were any hypaethral temples. The two sides
assigns its invention to the architect Hermogenes. of the question will be found discussed in the folFrom the expense of such edifices, there were na- lowing works: Ross, Keine Hypatlhraltemsspel mehr,
turally very few examples of them. The far-famed in his Ilellenika, pt. i. pp. 1-39, Halle, 1846, 4to.,
temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and that of Quirinus and Boitticher, Der Hyphtlsacltenmpel, aluf Grund
at Rome, were dipteral. That of Artemis at Mag- des Viiruvischen Zeugnisses, gegen Prof: D. L. Ross,,esia, built by Hermogenes, was pseudodipteral. erwiesen, Potsdam, 1847, 4to.