Perseus, king of Macedonia, and Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria (176-164 B.C.) finally finished the cell and placed the Corinthian columns of the portico, employing for the purpose a Roman architect of great skill by the name of Cossutius. It was then, probably, that Livy made the remark “that among so many temples this is the only one worthy of a god.” Sylla, however, when he laid siege to Athens, some forty years later, robbed the temple most unmercifully, carrying away with him many of the columns to Rome. But his work of destruction was more than compensated for by his successor, Hadrian, two hundred years still later, under the immediate direction of the celebrated Roman architect, Luigi Cannia. Hadrian, in his love of great architectural effects, was inspired to beautify the peribolos with a peristyle one hundred rods in length, and his architect contributed a new section to the temple itself, and added three grand vestibules. The sacred enclosure, after Hadrian had finished it, which had a circumference of about twenty-three hundred feet, was ornamented by statues, contributed in great numbers by different cities. The length of the temple at this time, according to Stuart, was, upon the upper step, three hundred and fifty-four feet, and its breadth one hundred and seventy-one feet. The columns, which surrounded the cell, now all Corinthian, numbered one hundred and twenty-four, all of Pentelican marble, of which there are sixteen still standing. In the pronaos, or inner portico, Hadrian caused to be placed four statues of himself, two in Thracian and two in Egyptian marble, which were, perhaps, three more than a moderately modest man might have felt necessary. Another gorgeous temple to the great Jupiter was begun about five years later than that at Athens by the architect Libon, an Eleian, in Olympia, which Lysias speaks of as “the fairest spot in Greece.” In Olympia the spiritual and physical natures of the Grecian people may be said to have combined in the perfection of development. Here the glories of the body, the capabilities of the finest muscular strength and athletic action, were exhibited in gymnasium and stadion, and here the religious spirit of the people arose to the fullest intensity, and as though doubly inspired by the action and strength of the perfect body, found expression in temple and sanctuary.