TEMPLE, in architecture. The ancient temples were distinguished, with regard to their construction, into various kinds; as, Temple in antis, Hedra in antis. These, according to Vitruvius, were the most simple of all temples, having only angular pilasters, called antis or parasitae, at the corners, and two Tuscan columns on each side of the doors. Temple, tetrastyle, or simple tetrastyle, was a temple that had four columns in front and as many behind. Such was the temple of Fortuna Virilis at Rome. Temple, prostyle, that which had only columns in its front or fore side; as that of Ceres at Eleusis in Greece. Temple, amphiprostyle, or double prostyle, that which had columns both before and behind, and which was also tetrastyle. Temple, peripteres, that which had four rows of insulated columns around, and was exastyle, i. e. had six columns in front; as the temple of Honour at Rome. Temple, diptere, that which had two wings and two rows of columns around, and was also octostyle, or had eight columns in front; as that of Diana at Ephesus.