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ordered the Domus Aurea to be destroyed, and
he and his immediate successors, Titus and Do-
mitian, erected on its site, various edifices of less
costliness perhaps, but of equal magnificence and
greater utility ; such as the temple of Peace, the
Therm# called by the name of Titus, and the
Flavian amphitheatre or Coliseum, &c. Forums,
porticos, thermae, triumphal arches, and mauso-
leums, still continued the favorite objects of impe-
rial pride and expense, and Rome daily increased
in beauty for the space of three hundred years, till
the empire was divided under Diocletian, when
the seat of the sovereign was translated to the
East, and the Capital of the world was abandon-
ed to hostile attacks and rapacity. However, its
decay was slow and gradual. The solidity of its
edifices guarded it against the sudden devasta-
tions of time or weather; while the barbarian
was often checked in the full career of victory,
and awed into reluctant reverence by the irre-
sistible majesty that still encompassed the Impe-
rial City.
The most remarkable edifices erected during

ing room revolved upon itself, representing the motions of
the heavens; the baths were supplied with salt water from
the sea, and mineral water from the Albula (now Soljorata}
near Tibur.

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