Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . rroundedthe twin temples. The pedestals partly remain which supportedcolossal statues of Venus and Roma. A large mass of exquisiteCorinthian cornice may be viewed within. Tliis was perhaps thelast Pagan temple which remained in use in Rome. It was closedby Theodosius in 391, and remained entire until 630, when PopeHonorius I. carried off the bronze tiles of its roof to adorn S. Peters ;although some of these were seen here still in 1606. Ac sacram resonare viam mngitibus, anteDelubrum Roniac ; colitur nam sanguine ct ipsaMore deae, noinu
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . rroundedthe twin temples. The pedestals partly remain which supportedcolossal statues of Venus and Roma. A large mass of exquisiteCorinthian cornice may be viewed within. Tliis was perhaps thelast Pagan temple which remained in use in Rome. It was closedby Theodosius in 391, and remained entire until 630, when PopeHonorius I. carried off the bronze tiles of its roof to adorn S. Peters ;although some of these were seen here still in 1606. Ac sacram resonare viam mngitibus, anteDelubrum Roniac ; colitur nam sanguine ct ipsaMore deae, noinunquo loci, cen numen, Urbis Venurisque pari so culinine tolluutTempla, simol geminls adolentur tlmra deabus. —rruderUirts oontr. Symm. v. 214. When about to construct his magnlflce«t Temple of Venns and Borne,Hadrian produced a design of his own and showed it with proud satisfactionto the architect Apollodoms. The creator of the Trajan column remarked > See the whole quubtion of Simon Magna discussed in WaterworthsEiigland and Walks in Rome 156 with a sneer, that the deities, ii they rose from their seats, must thrust theirheads through the ceiling. The Emperor, we are assured, could not forgivethis banter ; but we can hardly take to tlie letter the statement that he puthis critic to death for it.—Meri»ale, ch. Ixvi. The pavement of the earlier Sacra Via has been traced running,under the porticus of the Temples of Venus and Eome toward theSacellum Streniae, the site of which last shrine has yet to be merely know that it began thereby. Close to the Coliseum may be seen the remains of the pedestalmade by Hadrian, 121, to receive the Colossus, executed inbrass by Zenodorus. The head (originally that of Nero) wassurrounded with rays that it might represent Apollo. It is de-scribed by Martial: Hie ubi sidereus propius yidet astra colossusEt cresennt media pegmata celsa via,Invidiosa feri radiabant atria regis,Unaque jam tota stabat in ur
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