[2604] See B. iii. c. 8.
[2605] A round, broad-brimmed hat, such as we see represented in the statues of Mercury.
[2606] Where two brazen vessels were erected on a column, adjoining to which was the statue of a boy with a whip; which, when agitated by the wind, struck the vessels, and omens were drawn from the tinkling noise produced, significant of future events, it was supposed.
[2607] A building like this, as Niebuhr says, is absolutely impossible, and belongs to the “Arabian Nights.” The description in some particulars resembles that of a Chinese pagoda.
[2608] Probably of Babylon, which were built on terraces raised on arches.
[2609] His meaning is, that it was built upon arches.
[2610] Asia Minor.
[2611] The Hotel de Ville at Brussels is said to have been built upon a stratum of hides.
[2612] See Chapter [4] of the present Book. Sillig, in his “Dictionary of Ancient Artists,” suggests a reading which would make the passage to mean that Scopas was jointly architect with Chersiphron. The latter, however, was not the architect of the second temple at Ephesus, but flourished nearly four hundred years before.