 | Andrew Lumisden - Italy - 1812 - 616 pages
...temples dedicated to this favourite deity. Plutarch, J mentioning the temple of Vesta i says that it. was of an orbicular form, for the preservation of the sacred fire ; intending thereby to express not so much the earth or Vesta, as the whole universe, in the jcentre of which the... | |
 | George Oliver - 1875 - 374 pages
...coincidence," the Curate observed, " but Plutarch asserts it as an undoubted fact, that Numa built a temple in an orbicular form for the preservation of the sacred...the edifice to shadow out, not so much the earth, or in other words Vesta, as the whole universe, in the centre of which the Pythagoreans placed fire, which... | |
 | George Oliver - Freemasonry - 1875 - 272 pages
...of the Maker of all things were constituted therein.2 Plutarch tells us that Numa built a temple in an orbicular form for the preservation of the sacred...of the edifice to shadow out, not so much the earth as the whole universe ; in the centre of which the Pythagoreans placed Fire, which they called Vesta... | |
 | William Richard Lethaby - Architecture - 1892 - 292 pages
...to represent the heavenly vault. Plutarch in ' Isis and Osiris ' describes a temple of Vesta : — ' Numa built a temple of an orbicular form, for the...universe, in the centre of which the Pythagoreans placed fire, which they called Vesta and Unity.' Ovid in the ' Fasti ' gives the same explanation ; the temple... | |
 | Archaeology - 1879 - 366 pages
...character, and the profound mysterious rites with which she was adored in every region of the ancient world. which attracts more than usual notice, from its elegant...UNIVERSE ; in the centre of which the Pythagoreans place FIRE, which they called VESTA and UNITY.' Upon this account it was that the ancients so frequently... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1898 - 380 pages
...of the Maker of all things were constituted therein. " Plutarch tells us that Numa built a temple in an orbicular form for the preservation of the sacred...of the edifice to shadow out, not so much the earth as the whole universe ; in the centre of which the Pythagoreans placed Fire, which they called Vesta... | |
 | Archaeology - 1880 - 352 pages
...usual notice, from its elegaut construction and perfect preservation, is this day to be seen at Home, in the beautiful round church of Saint Stephen, upon...UNIVERSE ; in the centre of which the Pythagoreans place FIRE, which they called VESTA and UNITY.' Upon this account it was that the ancients so frequently... | |
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Numa built a temple of an orbicular form, for the preservation of the sacred fire ; intending, by the fashion of the edifice, to shadow out, not so much the earth, or Vesta, considered in that character, as the WHOLE UNIVERSE ; in the centre of which... 