13/38 The temple had been shut some time, and the access to it was overgrown with brambles.] [Footnote 34: Donatus, Roma Antiqua et Nova, l.iv.c.4, p.468. This consecration was performed by Pope Boniface IV. I am ignorant of the favorable circumstances which had preserved the Pantheon above two hundred years after the reign of Theodosius.] In this wide and various prospect of devastation, the spectator may distinguish the ruins of the temple of Serapis, at Alexandria. |