DOI Kapitel:
Chap. VI: Observations on Ancient Names - On Roman Architecture - Defects of the Modern Style - Progress of the Art - Papal Government - Its Character - Consequences of the French Invasion and Preponderance of the present and future State of Rome
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.62268#0252
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Ch. VI.
the second, till the Etolians and their allies
brought down upon themselves a reluctant and
long-suspended chastisement. In the next place,
this high-minded and generous people never-by
public authority compelled the Greeks to surren-
der the masterpieces that adorned their cities;
they never entered as friends and acted as ene-
mies ; they never employed cunning and intrigue,
to deceive their enemies, but open declaration
to caution them, and power and wisdom to sub-
due them. The destruction of Corinth* was a
* That very Mummius, who destroyed Corinth, rebuilt
the temple of Jupiter on or near the site of that city, erected
a brass statue to Jupiter at Olympia, and contributed very
largely to the embellishment of the temple of Delphi. In
fact, the Romans were so far from depriving the cities
which fell under their power of their statues and public orna-
ments, that they even restored to the owners those which
had been carried away. Thus when Scipio took and de-
stroyed Carthage, he restored to the Sicilian cities the vari-
ous articles, and particularly the statues and paintings,
which the Carthaginians, a cruel pilfering people, had de-
prived them of. He extended this benefit not to Italy only,
as that was just and natural, but even to Africa, and di-
rected that every community should be allowed to resume all
the articles of public property which it could identify.—-
Liv. Supp. li. 50.
We find moreover, that so late as the era of Pliny, when
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. VI.
the second, till the Etolians and their allies
brought down upon themselves a reluctant and
long-suspended chastisement. In the next place,
this high-minded and generous people never-by
public authority compelled the Greeks to surren-
der the masterpieces that adorned their cities;
they never entered as friends and acted as ene-
mies ; they never employed cunning and intrigue,
to deceive their enemies, but open declaration
to caution them, and power and wisdom to sub-
due them. The destruction of Corinth* was a
* That very Mummius, who destroyed Corinth, rebuilt
the temple of Jupiter on or near the site of that city, erected
a brass statue to Jupiter at Olympia, and contributed very
largely to the embellishment of the temple of Delphi. In
fact, the Romans were so far from depriving the cities
which fell under their power of their statues and public orna-
ments, that they even restored to the owners those which
had been carried away. Thus when Scipio took and de-
stroyed Carthage, he restored to the Sicilian cities the vari-
ous articles, and particularly the statues and paintings,
which the Carthaginians, a cruel pilfering people, had de-
prived them of. He extended this benefit not to Italy only,
as that was just and natural, but even to Africa, and di-
rected that every community should be allowed to resume all
the articles of public property which it could identify.—-
Liv. Supp. li. 50.
We find moreover, that so late as the era of Pliny, when