11/29 Kuhn,) and our modern travellers, Wheeler (p. 298.) Hadrian made the road passable for two carriages.] [Footnote 10: Claudian (in Rufin.l.ii.186, and de Bello Getico, 611, &c.) vaguely, though forcibly, delineates the scene of rapine and destruction.] [Footnote 11: These generous lines of Homer (Odyss.l.v. 306) were transcribed by one of the captive youths of Corinth: and the tears of Mummius may prove that the rude conqueror, though he was ignorant of the value of an original picture, possessed the purest source of good taste, a benevolent heart, (Plutarch, Symposiac.l.ix.tom.ii. |