CONCLAVE (from the Latin) a room in the Vatican, wherein the cardinals used to meet to choose a pope. This room was, in fact, a range of small cells or apartments, stand ing in a line the galleries and hall of the Vatkan. The word was also used by the ancient flotnaus, to denote, generally, a room under lock and key.
Temple of. in 1Zoinaru antiquities. it temple, built by Camillus at the foot of the Capitol, and seen from the Forum: the remains consist of a hexastyle portico, with two odium's at the back, Of the Ionic order ; the entablature is very nearly entire: a large portion of the tympannm, and a small part of the itedimcnt, remain at the spring of the level cornice. The weight of the tympaninn is discharged from the entablature with arches. The columns are of granite. of one piece each, being 40 feet high, and 4 feet 2 inches diameter. The bases are without plinths, except those of the angular columns. The capitals are of a singular construction, and ditli-r from all ancient examples of the same order, in having the four films alike. The volutes are insignificantly
dhninutive, and the mouldings too large, climpared witlt the other parts of the column. The architrave and frieze make only one course in height ; and on the front, and at one return of the portico, are entirely plain, without any separation by The cornice has both modillitms and dentils. This is perhaps the only ancient example of the Ionic order, in which modillit ins are used : they are in number twenty-two in the front of the portico. An interval is placed over the axis of each odium), and not a roodillion ; and the columns are very high, hcing nine diameters and a half: This temple is supposed to have been psendo-peripteral. The column on the right angle is less than the rest, and the mid dle intereolumniation greater than the others, by about one-third part of a ?made.