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Salvete omnes, here's an interesting article about the orientation of Greek temples. I do hope someone will make a similar research about Roman temples.
... What a pity! I have not the same passage of Plinius, in mine there is nothing about colours of these awnings. In my Latin version he only wrote: "In
M. Moravius Piscinus Horatianus Quiritibus et omnibus salutem plurimam dicit: Diis bene iuvantibus sitis. Hodie est ante diem X Kalendas Decembris; haec dies