Usage examples (27)

• Again, most of the Grecian Doric temples were peripteral, that is, were surrounded with pillars on all the sides.
• The temple was peripteral with 46 columns in its peristyle.
• But if such a temple is to be constructed in peripteral form, let two steps and then the stylobate be constructed below.
• A temple will be peripteral that has six columns in front and six in the rear, with eleven on each side including the corner columns.