The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . and peperino foruse in the new aqueduct. Whatever remains were leftstanding became the prey of local land-owners, especiallyof the trustees of the hospital of S. Giovanni, in whosearchives I have found documents concerning the sale atpublic auction of the stone arch, over which the Claudiaspanned the Via Latina near the farmhouse of RomaVecchia; and again, the sale of four piers of peperino toBartolomeo Vitali, of two to the brothers Guidotti, andso Three or four hundred feet of the channel ofthe same aqueduct we
The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . and peperino foruse in the new aqueduct. Whatever remains were leftstanding became the prey of local land-owners, especiallyof the trustees of the hospital of S. Giovanni, in whosearchives I have found documents concerning the sale atpublic auction of the stone arch, over which the Claudiaspanned the Via Latina near the farmhouse of RomaVecchia; and again, the sale of four piers of peperino toBartolomeo Vitali, of two to the brothers Guidotti, andso Three or four hundred feet of the channel ofthe same aqueduct were destroyed by the owner of thefarm of the Capannelle in 1887 ; the Mediterranean Rail-way Company, which, about the same time, built the newline to Segni, is responsible for other damages. 1 Lanciani, / Comentarii di Frontino, p. 149. 86 DESTRUCTION OF ANCIENT ROME A walk from the Porta Furba (on the road to Frascati)to the Porta Maggiore, by the Vicolo del Mandrione,will give the student a melancholy appreciation of theimportance and of the fate of the Roman aqueducts,. Fig. K). — The remains of the Claudian aqueduct at the Porta Furba. wliicli, after so many centuries of spoliation, are stillamong tlie most impressive remains of ancient Rome(Fig. 10). Notwithstanding the ravages of the Vandals and thedesperate straits of the people of Rome on many occa- i THE CITY IN THE SIXTH CENTURY 87 sions since the first sack of the Goths, Procopius, whomI have already quoted so often, speaks of a number ofmonuments as standing uninjured toward the middleof the sixth century. We learn from him that theCity in general, and the Forum especially, retained animposing array of bronze and marble statues, the worksof Phidias and Lysippus; that the celebrated Cow ofMyron was yet to be seen above the fountain in theForum of Peace ; that the bronze statue of Janus, fivecubits high, was still preserved in the cella of his four-faced temple; and that the group of the Three Fates— the one, prob
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