POLA 27 enetian Republic proposed to remove it, stone by tone, and re-erect it on the Lido. Some of its tones did actually get to Venice, and it is said the nely squared blocks of the church of S. Fantin ame from Pola. Pola, the Roman Pietas Julia—though the name ’ola is not derived from that (it is a much older ocal name)—was colonized at the time of the toman conquest of Istria, in 178 B.C., and is still ull of Roman remains. Besides the amphitheatre here is the Porta Gemina, a double gate, as its ame implies, with three Corinthian half-columns, ne on each side and one between the twin arches. But here there occurs a singular architectural eculiarity, one which, as Freeman remarks, reminds s that we are on the road to Spalato, and which, perhaps, anticipates the development of the “ free rch”, which finds its first full expression in the eristyle of Diocletian’s palace at that place. “ The columns carry an entablature, with frieze tjnd cornice, but the architrave is wanting.” Is this the beginning of the break-up of the trabeate lystem ? The answer is neither simple nor certain, —Jut it must be borne in mind when the whole question is raised by Diocletian’s palace. Then there is the Porta Aurea, or Aurata, in truth not a gate