History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ntly lodged. - He shouldrather have said, like a satrap of the East, for there was notso much evidence of good taste as of Asiatic luxury. Xero,who called himself an artist and a poet, was only so in the lowest Suet., Nero, 31 : Pliny ( Hist. Xat., xxxiv. 7) says 110 feet. After his death it was dedi-cated to the sun. Cf. Spartianus, Iladr., 1!) : Lampridius, Comm., 17. The maker of this statuewas the same Zenodorus who had made the colossal statue of Mercury for the Auverguese, whichwas placed on the
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ntly lodged. - He shouldrather have said, like a satrap of the East, for there was notso much evidence of good taste as of Asiatic luxury. Xero,who called himself an artist and a poet, was only so in the lowest Suet., Nero, 31 : Pliny ( Hist. Xat., xxxiv. 7) says 110 feet. After his death it was dedi-cated to the sun. Cf. Spartianus, Iladr., 1!) : Lampridius, Comm., 17. The maker of this statuewas the same Zenodorus who had made the colossal statue of Mercury for the Auverguese, whichwas placed on the summit of the Puy de Dome. (Pliny, Hist. Xat., xxxiv. 18.) ^Suet., Nero, 31. NERO, 13 OCTOliEK, 54 TO !i JUNE, 08 ). 17 sense. This graceless luxury seemed to him a proof of his ownomnipotence. No other emperor, he said, has realized hispower ; and he aimed at marvellous effects, as if to prove thateven nature must yield him obedience.^ For this reason hewished to huild a canal from Lake Avernus to the Tiber, throughmountains and across the Pontine Marshes, of sufficient width to. Euins of the Palatine over the Circus Maximus. allow two great ships to sail abreast,- so that it miglit appearas if the sea had come to Rome, while Rome with its greatincrease would extend to Ostia. These ruinous constructions did not diminish the extravagantprodigality of his games and feasts, at which a single dish cost at Suetonius said of Caligula, 27 : Xi/ti/ tarn ejficere eonciqnicehnt (juam quod posse efficineyaretur. * This canal, which was to have heen 230 kilomètres in lengtli. had for its object the avoid-ino- of Cape Misenum and the promontory of Circeii, where many vessels were lost every year,and to make the Koman Cainpaofna healthy by drying up the Pontine Marshes; a most usefulenterprise, but probably inipractica])le on account of the level of the soil. 618 THE CJIiSAUH AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 times 4,000,000 sesterces ; of liis furniture of pearl and ivory, hisgarment
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