TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS,

ATHENS.

Drawn by C. Stanfield, A.R.A. from a Sketch by W. Page.

"Here let me sit upon this massy stone,

The marble column's yet unshaken base;*
Here, son of Saturn! was thy fav'rite throne:
Mightiest of many such! Hence let me trace
The latent grandeur of thy dwelling-place.

It

may not be nor e'en can Fancy's eye

Restore what Time hath labour'd to deface.
Yet these proud pillars claim no passing sigh;
Unmoved the Moslem sits, the light Greek carols by."

Childe Harold, canto ii. st. 10.

"BEYOND the gate the walls project, and you have to pass round an angle of them, in order to arrive at a ruin of inconceivable magnificence, directly before you to the east.

"The Temple of Jupiter Olympius, of which sixteen columns, entirely of marble, yet survive: originally there were one hundred and fifty. These columns, however, are by many supposed to have belonged to the Pantheon."