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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines
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Hudson.] [Footnote 72: Donatus de Roma Vetere, l.iii.c.4, 5, 6.

Nardini Roma Antica, l.iii.11, 12, 13, and a Ms.description of ancient Rome, by Bernardus Oricellarius, or Rucellai, of which I obtained a copy from the library of the Canon Ricardi at Florence.

Two celebrated pictures of Timanthes and of Protogenes are mentioned by Pliny, as in the Temple of Peace; and the Laocoon was found in the baths of Titus.] [Footnote 721: The Emperor Vespasian, who had caused the Temple of Peace to be built, transported to it the greatest part of the pictures, statues, and other works of art which had escaped the civil tumults.

It was there that every day the artists and the learned of Rome assembled; and it is on the site of this temple that a multitude of antiques have been dug up.

See notes of Reimar on Dion Cassius, lxvi.c.15, p.
1083 .-- W.] [Footnote 73: Montfaucon l'Antiquite Expliquee, tom.iv.p.2, l.


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