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tileries, the Church of the Invalids, St. Gene-
vieve, St. Sulpice, &c. Berlin has its Branden-
burgh Gate, and Dresden its Electoral Chapel.
So anciently Ephesus had its Temple of Diana :
Halicarnassus its Mausoleum ; Rhodes its Colos-
sus. Athens itself, the mother of the arts, could
not exhibit more than twenty edifices of extraor-
dinary beauty, among· which the Parthenon, the
Temple of Theseus, the Propyleium, and the
Portico, were the principal. Rome seems to have
presented a perpetual succession of architectural
scenery, and exhibited in every view groups or
lines of edifices, every one of which taken sepa-
rately, would have been sufficient to constitute
the characteristic ornament of any other city.
But to enable the reader to form a clearer idea
of this magnificence, I will descend to particu-
lars, and give a concise account of some of its
principal edifices, such as the Cloaca’—Aque-
ducts— Vice or Roads—Forums—Porticos—Ther-
mae and Temples: after which I will subjoin
some singular and striking instances of private
grandeur.
A Greek author* has observed, that Roman
greatness manifested itself most conspicuously in

* Dion. Antiq. Rom. iii