The arch of Titus and the spoils of the temple ... . III. PRINCIPI SVO QVOD PRAECEPTIS PATRIS CONSILIISQVE ET AVSPICIIS GENTEM IVDAEORVM DOMVIT ET VRBEM HIEROSOLYMAM OMNIBVS ANTE SE DVCIBVS REGIBVS GENTIBVSQVE AVT FRVSTRA PETITAM AVT OMNINO INTENTATAM DELEVIT. Whether this inscription was ever attached toeither side of the Arch is uncertain : nor is ita matter of much importance. It gives no in-formation as to Titus, as acting under his fatherscounsels, which we have not learnt more fully fromJosephus : and what it adds, with regard to hisassault upon Jerusalem, is matter of such
The arch of Titus and the spoils of the temple ... . III. PRINCIPI SVO QVOD PRAECEPTIS PATRIS CONSILIISQVE ET AVSPICIIS GENTEM IVDAEORVM DOMVIT ET VRBEM HIEROSOLYMAM OMNIBVS ANTE SE DVCIBVS REGIBVS GENTIBVSQVE AVT FRVSTRA PETITAM AVT OMNINO INTENTATAM DELEVIT. Whether this inscription was ever attached toeither side of the Arch is uncertain : nor is ita matter of much importance. It gives no in-formation as to Titus, as acting under his fatherscounsels, which we have not learnt more fully fromJosephus : and what it adds, with regard to hisassault upon Jerusalem, is matter of such am-bitious blundering that it is surprising how anyone could have ventured on a statement, at variancenot only with Jewish history, but even with recent THE ARCH OF TITUS 69 Roman affairs. That the Romans may have beenignorant of the assaults that had been made uponJudasa and Jerusalem by neighbouring nationsmay well be supposed, when we see the strangestories which Tacitus has retailed of the origin ofthe Jews and of their early history.^ But how. CON SEC RAT 10 SIVR APOTHEOSIS T I T FROM BARTOLlS ADMIRANDA. could they be ignorant of Pompeys conquest, whohad not only taken Jerusalem, but had also madeher tributary to Rome, not a century and a halfbefore the time of Titus ? Such fictions, says 1 Tacitus, Hist. v. 2—5. 2 Josephus, Antiq. xiv. iv. Tacitus, Hist. v. ix. 70 THE ARCH OF TITUS Orelli, they are apt to form, who aim at somethinggrand or extraordinary.^ Nor is this the only instance in which the nameof Titus seems to have been thus unduly alludes to a learned strife which had beenkindled in behalf of the two Vespasians, by someold inscription, that had suffered in common withthe arches and temples of ancient Rome. Some felt the silent stroke of mouldering age,Some hostile fury, some religious rage ;Barbarian blindness, Christian zeal conspire,And Papal piety, and Gothic , by its own ruins saved from flame,Some buried marb
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