Recidit in solidam longo post tempore, terram
Pondus, & exhibuit junctam cum viribus artem. Ovid Met.
The two uprights that supported it are the most delicate stones of the whole work. They were, I believe, above 30 foot long, and well chizell’d, finely taper’d and proportion’d in their dimensions. That southward is broke in two, lying upon the altar. The other still stands entire, but leans upon one of the stones of the inward oval.
Jamjam lapsura cadentique
Imminet assimilis———
The root-end or unhewn part of both, are rais’d somewhat above ground. We cannot be sure of the true height of this, when it was perfect: but I am sure 15 cubits, which I have assign’d, is the lowest. The next trilithon, that toward the west, is intire, except that some of the end of the impost is fallen clean off, and all the upper edge is very much diminish’d by time. As Lucretius says,
——Minui rem quamque videmus,
Et quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus ævo,
Ex oculisque, vetustatem, subducere nostris.
P. 28. TAB. XV.