“Non illic Libycæ posuerunt ditia gentes Templa, nec Eöis splendent donaria gemmis Quamvis Æthiopum populis Arabumque _Beatis_ Gentibus, atque Indis, unus sit Jupiter Ammon: _Pauper adhuc deus est_; nullis violata per ævum Divitiis delubra tenens, morumque priorum Numen Romano templum defendit ab auro.” Lucan, lib. ix. The Temple of Ammon further may be presumed, to have been of small dimension. When Alexander alone enters the building, it is mentioned by his historians, that such exclusive permission was a mark of high respect; but Strabo further informs us, that all who attended on Alexander, “_heard_ the Oracle _from without_:” ἔξωθὲν τε τῆς θεμεστείας ΑΚΡΟΑΣΑΣΘΑΙ πάντας πλὴν Αλεξάνδρου, Τουτον δ᾿ ἔνδοθὲν εἶναι. edit. Casaub. p. 814. The Oracle given from the extreme recess of the interior, (to which the priest retired for the purpose, as before cited from Diodorus), could be heard and distinguished from without, only under supposition, that the entrance was at no great distance from the adytum, and the temple, of course, not large. Thirdly, It is exclusively stated by Mr. Horneman, that _the building at Siwah is situated in the centre of an inclosure, surrounded at some distance by ancient foundations of a strong and massive wall_. Not to lengthen this note by unnecessary citations, it may be sufficient to refer generally to the Itinerary of Pausanias, wherein scarcely a temple is mentioned throughout Greece, without noticing, at the same time its inclosure and circumvallation: and even the sacred grove, distinctively from the temple, was often surrounded by a wall, as was that of Venus _in Eliacis_, cap. xxv. These walls may be considered, in one respect, as marking the boundary of the holy ground; but further, they were built with a view to protecting not only the sanctity, but the wealth too of the temple.