History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . still the custom to put on the walls of the temples,1and Champollion finds his name at the side of sculptures whichthe Emperor ordered for the pronaos of the great Temple of still spoke, but it was for the last time. In an excess ofpious zeal, Severus restored to its present condition this colossus,broken in the time of Augustus; but from the day when thestatue no longer offered to the rising sun its wide cleft of unequalsurface, impregnated with the dews of night, the god ceased toutter
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . still the custom to put on the walls of the temples,1and Champollion finds his name at the side of sculptures whichthe Emperor ordered for the pronaos of the great Temple of still spoke, but it was for the last time. In an excess ofpious zeal, Severus restored to its present condition this colossus,broken in the time of Augustus; but from the day when thestatue no longer offered to the rising sun its wide cleft of unequalsurface, impregnated with the dews of night, the god ceased toutter his divine 1 The last known hieroglyphic inscription is an offering of the Emperor Decius, about theyear 250 ; but Letronne is of opinion that the use of this writing continued as late as the sixthcentury (Journ. des Savants, 1843, p. 464). Inscriptions are extant in which the Greeks callthemselves engravers of hieroglyphics (Letronne, Inscr. dEgypte, ii. 475). 2 Lettres ecrites dlZgypte, p. 86. 3 See Vol. V. p. 384, and the famous paper by Letronne upon the statue of the Pharaoh. a H O n »0 m W H aaa «O M &-) H -4a -! Cm 3a H o a Q Oh COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 TO 211 a. i>. 525 Curious in respect to all tilings human and divine, even themost secret, Severus informed himself as to the sources of theNile, to which the Romans approached very Dion Cassiusspeaks of them in mentioning the Emperors journey, the story ofwhich he probably heard; and if he is deceived in placing the
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