Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

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Works, or to be learnt out of them,
lifting up their Hands in Admiration of
the Poet, and in Applause of the Solem-
nity. This Antique Piece of Sculpture
is in the Possession of the Constable Co-
lonna, but never shown to those who see
the Palace,unless they particularlydelireit.
Among the great Variety of ancient
Coins which I saw at Rome, I could not
but take particular notice of such as re-
late to any of the Buildings or Statues
that are still Extant. Those of the
Fir st kind have been already publifli-
ed by the Writers of the Roman An-
tiquities, and may be most of them
met with in the last Edition of Donatus,
as the Pillars of 'Trajan and Antonine, the
Arches of Drufus Germanicus, and Sep-
timius Severus, the Temples of Janus,
Concord, Vefia, Jupiter tonans, Apollo
and Fauflina, the Circus Maximus, Ago-
nalis, and that of Caracalla, or, accor-
ding to Fabretti, of Galienus, of Tefpa-
siaris Amphitheater, and Alexander Se-
verus's Baths 3 tho’, I must confess, the
Subject of the last may be very well
doubted of. As for the Meta fudans
and Pons ALlius, which have gain’d a
Place among the Buildings that are now
standing, and to be met with on old
Reverses of Medals : The Coin that
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