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Ch. XL
ox in this temple by a Rom an instead of a Sabine,
was supposed to have decided the destiny of
Rome, and to have fixed the seat of universal
empire on its hills.* Of this temple, once so
magnificent and so celebrated, no traces remain,
not even a base, a fallen pillar, a shattered
wall, to ascertain its situation, or furnish the
antiquary with grounds for probable conjecture.
The same may be said of the temple of Juno,
of that of the Dea Bona, and of the numberless
other stately edifices that rose on this hill.
Some parts indeed are so deserted and so encum-
bered with ruins, as to answer the description
Virgil gives of it when pointed out by Evander
to his Trojan guest.
Jam primum saxis suspensam hanc aspice rupem:
Disject® procul ut moles, desertaque montis
Stat domus, et scopuli ingentem traxere ruinam.
JEn. viii. 190.
The west side of the Aventine looks down on
the Tiber and on the fields called Prati del
Popolo Romano. These meadows are planted
with mulberry-trees, and adorned by the pyra-
midal tomb of Caius Cestius. This ancient
monument remains entire, an advantage which
it owes partly to its form well calculated to
Tit. Liv. i. 45. Valerius Maximus, vii. 3.
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. XL
ox in this temple by a Rom an instead of a Sabine,
was supposed to have decided the destiny of
Rome, and to have fixed the seat of universal
empire on its hills.* Of this temple, once so
magnificent and so celebrated, no traces remain,
not even a base, a fallen pillar, a shattered
wall, to ascertain its situation, or furnish the
antiquary with grounds for probable conjecture.
The same may be said of the temple of Juno,
of that of the Dea Bona, and of the numberless
other stately edifices that rose on this hill.
Some parts indeed are so deserted and so encum-
bered with ruins, as to answer the description
Virgil gives of it when pointed out by Evander
to his Trojan guest.
Jam primum saxis suspensam hanc aspice rupem:
Disject® procul ut moles, desertaque montis
Stat domus, et scopuli ingentem traxere ruinam.
JEn. viii. 190.
The west side of the Aventine looks down on
the Tiber and on the fields called Prati del
Popolo Romano. These meadows are planted
with mulberry-trees, and adorned by the pyra-
midal tomb of Caius Cestius. This ancient
monument remains entire, an advantage which
it owes partly to its form well calculated to
Tit. Liv. i. 45. Valerius Maximus, vii. 3.