Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 4): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

Ch. I.

THROUGH ITALY.

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Milan, and is recorded in the well known verses
of Ausonius.

——— duplice muro
Amplificata loci species, populique voluptas
Circus, et inclusi moles cuneata theatri;
Templa, Palatinaeque arces, opulensque Moneta.
Et regio Herculei Celebris ab honore lavacri,
Cunctaque marmoreis ornata peristyla signis;
Mamiaque in valli formam circumdata labro:
Omnia quse magnis operum velutaemula formis
Excellunt; nec juncta premit vicinia Romae.

But of these edifices the names only remain?
annexed to the churches built on their site, or
over their ruins.—Sta. Maria del Circo, S. Geor^
gio al Palazzo, S. Vittore al Theatro. We must
except the baths, of which a noble fragment still
stands near the parochial church of St. Lorenzo.
It consists of sixteen beautiful Corinthian columns
fluted, and of white marble, with their architrave.
They are all of the best proportion, and placed
at the distance of two diameters and a quarter?
the most regular and most graceful intercolumni-
ation. The houses behind the pillars, and in-
deed the church itself, evidently stand on ancient
foundations, and have enabled the antiquary to
ascertain with tolerable accuracy the form of the
original building. The era of the erection of
these baths is not known, but the extreme ele-
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