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 | | The Temple of Divine Julius, for example, is pycnostyle, the narrow distance between the columns emphasizing the verticality of the temple. |
 | | Height was accentuated, as well, by building the temple on a high podium, especially one with a sheer rise in front, such as the Temple of Saturn, or by thrusting the podium forward beyond the porch to enclose the approach stairs, as with the Temples of Divine Julius and Castor and Pollux. |
 | | A temple could be tetrastyle (having four columns on the front), hexastyle (six, Temples of Saturn, Vespasian, Concord, Divine Julius), octastyle (eight, Temple of Castor and Pollux), or decastyle (ten, Temple of Venus and Rome). |
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