History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . n that city, and this wealth shespent on fleeting pleasures, instead of devoting it, like Nimes, tolasting works of art. Thanks to her hot-springs. Aix was a resortof the rich Massiliotes and one of the pleasure-cities of the , the ancient metropolis, beheld two rivals growing up,— thecity of the Remi and that of the Treviri, whence the governors ofBelgica and Lower Germany kept watch upon the Barbarians, as i Orelli, No. 4,020. 2 From Strabos time (iv. 190) Nimes had more inhabitants th
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . n that city, and this wealth shespent on fleeting pleasures, instead of devoting it, like Nimes, tolasting works of art. Thanks to her hot-springs. Aix was a resortof the rich Massiliotes and one of the pleasure-cities of the , the ancient metropolis, beheld two rivals growing up,— thecity of the Remi and that of the Treviri, whence the governors ofBelgica and Lower Germany kept watch upon the Barbarians, as i Orelli, No. 4,020. 2 From Strabos time (iv. 190) Nimes had more inhabitants than Narbonne. It was inhonor of the grandsons of Augustus, Lucius ami Cain- ( aesar, the latter of whom was patronof Nimes, that the temple now called the Maison carree was erected (see above, p. 62). I heedifice is 40 Roman feet high from the ground to the summit of the pediment, — a numberregarded as doubly fortunate, since it was the square of (Rev. epigr. du Midi de la 287). Tacitus calls this city ornatissima colonia valentissimaque (Ann. ii. 24). 3 Athenaeus xii. ~>. 51 i— - M~ — < -i — if) wlllllilillili^p^ ^SS SP°- issiii^gsi H -r---iir j^^jU
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