. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . Cassio-dorus, is to grasp how human genius can outdo itself, andvhen he said this the Temple of Jupiter, the chief glory of the Ibid., v. 325 ff. {P. L., LVIII., 739; Luetjohann, 257) : . . micant colores\\lbus vel venetus, virens rubensque? 2 Sidonius (1, Ep., 10, ad Campanianum. P. L., LVIII., 465 ; Luetjohann, 16)ays, when speaking of his period : Vereor ne famem populi romani theatralis caveaemgor insonet? 3 Variar., 6, No. 18 (P. L., LXIX., 698). 132 ROME AND THE POPES [No. 94 mons capitolinus, had already been unmercifully damaged by t
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . Cassio-dorus, is to grasp how human genius can outdo itself, andvhen he said this the Temple of Jupiter, the chief glory of the Ibid., v. 325 ff. {P. L., LVIII., 739; Luetjohann, 257) : . . micant colores\\lbus vel venetus, virens rubensque? 2 Sidonius (1, Ep., 10, ad Campanianum. P. L., LVIII., 465 ; Luetjohann, 16)ays, when speaking of his period : Vereor ne famem populi romani theatralis caveaemgor insonet? 3 Variar., 6, No. 18 (P. L., LXIX., 698). 132 ROME AND THE POPES [No. 94 mons capitolinus, had already been unmercifully damaged by theVandals. Though the golden roof was wanting to this building,yet his words prove that as yet there were no ruins on the hillof the Capitol. Within the precincts of the Capitoline Templebusiness was still actively transacted. Itinerant merchants dis-played their stuffs for sale; rich trinkets and jewels from afarflashed in the sun ; and there, too, Sidonius saw the richly carvedtables of the money-changers (trapezitae) with their golden 111. 24.—The Capitol, with the Arch of after Hiilsen. How loftily the ancient citadel of the Capitol (arx) must havilooked down upon all this Sidonius also gives us an interesting description of a judicicsession held by the Senate in its ancient Hall of Assembly)or Curia, close by the Capitol. All is carried on with classiisolemnity, the sacrifices to the gods being the only item omitted. 1 Variar., 7, No. 6 (P. L., LXIX., 712) : Capitolia celsa conscendere hoc est humcit{interna superata vidisse? Sidonius, 1, Ep., 7, ad Vincentium {P. L., LVIII., 45 LUETJOHANN, II). 2 Ibid. The letter contains a lively and instructive account of the proceedinjagainst Arvandus, the former praefectus praetorio of Gaul. no. 95] CLASSICISM *33 The Senate, as the most venerable corporation of the Empire,continued to issue its decrees in the old style. As of old theywere engraved on marble, Roman custom insisting on this s
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