History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . GOVERNMENT OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, 193 I 211 a. d. too much money in these works; bul public constructions arc anecessary, and at times an honorable, expense, and the economythai Severus insisted upon in the palace per-mitted him to spend large sums for usefulpurposes. There still exist some interestingremains of the little arch which the mchangers and merchants of the Forum boariumerected, and many fragments have been foundof a plan of Rome which appears to have beenengraved on tablets of marble in thi
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . GOVERNMENT OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, 193 I 211 a. d. too much money in these works; bul public constructions arc anecessary, and at times an honorable, expense, and the economythai Severus insisted upon in the palace per-mitted him to spend large sums for usefulpurposes. There still exist some interestingremains of the little arch which the mchangers and merchants of the Forum boariumerected, and many fragments have been foundof a plan of Rome which appears to have beenengraved on tablets of marble in this reign :the whole size of the plan must have been over three hundredsquare The provinces felt the benefits of this liberality. We have seenwhat was done at Byzantium. Antioch, Alexandria, and throughoutEgypt. am agrippas paxtiii FOUND AT In Syria the Emperor built at Baalbec (Heliopolis) the templeof Jupiter, at the right of the hillock on which, upon the site ofan enormous sanctuary built there by the Phoenicians at a remoteperiod. Antoninus had erected a temple to the Sun. The omamenta- 1 Souvenir of the Restoration of Agrippas Pantheon in the year 202. From an engravedstone (amethyst) Found at Constantino. (. of 1880, p. 2 Jordan, Forma Urbis, with illustrations. See later the Arch of the Fcrum boarium. 3 Altar found in 18S0 on the site of the theatre of Ostia, rebuilt by Septimius Severu?(Xutizie dcgliscavi di Antickita, May, 1880, and April. 18*1 ). 570 THE AFRICAN AND SYEIAN PRINCES, 180 TO 235 a. d. tion of this work marks with its lavish profusion, as does theSeptimian Arch at Rome, the decline of decorative art. Thearchitects of that time had no longer the calm serenity of theearly masters. Their imagination had run wild, and they tormentedtheir materials as the philosophers of
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