TEMPLE, in Architecture. The ancient temples were distinguished, with regard to their construction, into various kinds; as, Temple in antæ, Edes in antis. These, according to Vitruvius, were the most simple of all temples, having only angular pilasters, called antæ or parasutæ, 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 foreside; 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 periptere, that which had four rows of insulated columns around, and was hexastyle, 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.