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On this they were able to raise their monument, the Master-Work of all times. For in the time when it was raised they found it impossible to build any other temple in that way, not even with twenty thousand labours. The material was therefore brought from Babylon, whence also they carried off the gold-leaf. The temple is about fifty cubits high and has a portico supported by eight columns on each side in front of it. The columns are double, each being made up of an octagonal base with a cylindrical shaft upon which stands a Corinthian capital surmounted by an acanthus ornamented architrave and beadwork cornice which forms an entablature above the cella. The columns of the portico and the superincumbent architrave above each column of the portico are in two orders. The capitals are also in two orders, lower acanthus, capital with a head, upper Corinthian. The tenons of the columns in front are marble inlaid with gold, in the order given above, while those in the rear are solid gold. There is also a sixth column which has no cornice or entablature above it because an earthquake had made its capital break away when it was being erected. As for its substance, they have designated it to be "molten gold. ” The portico is roofed over, and the temple is roofed over in the same way. It has gold-leaf like the rest of it, but the temple itself is made of gold all over. There are images of picked men round it; prophets and philosophers whose utterances are recorded. It grieves me to say it, but at the present day they are lying in heaps of rubbish. The images themselves were taken by Xerxes to Persia; there they may be seen lying about in front of his palace; but I am ashamed to say that he did not deem them worthy even to be removed from their places by any one else, so contemptible did he find them. A few of them are gold-plated, but most of them are of bronze. The portico which they call the Porch of Xerxes I saw lying on the ground before the entrance to the temple, ready to be taken away for this purpose. For it seemed to me that the Persians might well carry off this part of their temple too, seeing that they had taken all else that belonged to them. This is how they speak about this temple: "The temple at Delos, built according to a measurement made by order of Xerxes - for no one had ever done anything like it before - was destroyed in some unimaginable manner. The roof fell in, and the columns of the porch also were not spared. The men who did all this lived to a great age, and they would have had a service performed for them by the Delians, but they were swept away by a sudden flood of water from heaven." But they say that it was really Alexander who destroyed it because he had been told that one of its images had made fun of him. In order to show that this was true he despatched the workmen who were making this temple to Egypt with orders to break it up there on his behalf. eccc085e13