[233] The others were, Miletus, Myus, Lebedos, Colophon, Priene, Teos, Erythræ, Phocæa, Clazomenæ, Chios, and Samos.
[234] Polyen. Strat. vi.
[235] Diana was the patroness of all women in labour, as well as of the children born.
[236] The Ephesians have a very wise law relative to the construction of public edifices. The architect whose plan is chosen enters into a bond, by which he engages all his property. If he exactly fulfils the condition of his agreement, honours are decreed him; if the expense exceeds the sum stipulated only by one quarter, the surplus is paid from the public treasury; but if it amounts to more, the property of the architect is taken to pay the remainder.—Barthelemy, vol. v. 394, 5; from Vitruvius Præf., lib. x. 203.
[237] We often see this temple represented upon medals with the figure of Diana. It is never charged with more than eight pillars; and sometimes only with six, four, and now and then only with two.
[238] The columns being sixty feet high, the diameter, according to rule, must be six feet eight inches; that is, one-ninth part. Thus, every column would contain one hundred and ten tons of marble, besides base and capital!—Wren's Parentalia, p. 361.
[239] Mithridates caused 150,000 Romans in Asia to be massacred in one day
[240] Hist. August, p. 178; Jornandes, c. 20.
[241] Strabo, 1. xiv. 640; Vitruvius, 1. i. c. 1; Præf. 1. vii.; Tacitus Annal. iii. 61; Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 14.
[242] The length of St. Peter's is 840 Roman palms; each palm is very little short of nine English inches.