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Vol.. IL ro IT ALY. 105
There is a prodigious multitude ofancientRuins
scattcr’d about behind the Capitol, but I dare not
engage in these Labyrinths; I stiall only touch
upon some fliort Remarks by the bye.
Tire famous Rupes Tarpeia,i that Precipice for- So caiMfrom
merly so dreadful, is at present an inconsiderable TarP«a«R<>.
Rock about twenty Foot high. •
The Triumphal Arch. ereAyd for Titus after he place by the
had taken Jerusalem, is remarkable, among other Sabines,
things, for the Baflb-relievo's which represent the
Candlestick, Table, Trumpets of the Great
Jubilee, and some Vessels that were taken out os
the Temple.
Ccmsiantines Arch is almost entire, only some of
its Statues have lost their Heads, which they say
Laurence de Medias stole, and carry’d to Florence.
It has been observ’d by curious InspeAors, that
the Bafib-relievo's on this Monument are not equal-
ly beautiful, which makes ’em suspeA that the best
Pieces were taken away when it was ereAed.
The Lake os Curtins was in the middle of the
Forum Romanum. Ovid tells us, that even in his
time there were no. Marks of it to be seen.
Curtius ille Lacus siccas qui fuftinet ar as,
Nunc folida est Tellus: [edfuit ayte Lacus.
Fall. 6.
The prodigious Amphitheatre * call’d Colliseum is
round on the outside, tho’ the Arena or Place of | without rec*
Combat is oval. It contain’d s Eighty and five kming theEx-
thousand SpeAators, four times more than the Am- cuneati, whs
phitheatre at Verona. I observ’d, that the Pillars ,he
r J Passaires to tur
- —•-- — —number os
. Twenty
* Becauje of a Colouus that was near it. thousan^
Hie ubi conspicui venerabilis Ampbitheatri
Erigitur Moles, Stagna hieronis erant.
H4
Mart.
of
There is a prodigious multitude ofancientRuins
scattcr’d about behind the Capitol, but I dare not
engage in these Labyrinths; I stiall only touch
upon some fliort Remarks by the bye.
Tire famous Rupes Tarpeia,i that Precipice for- So caiMfrom
merly so dreadful, is at present an inconsiderable TarP«a«R<>.
Rock about twenty Foot high. •
The Triumphal Arch. ereAyd for Titus after he place by the
had taken Jerusalem, is remarkable, among other Sabines,
things, for the Baflb-relievo's which represent the
Candlestick, Table, Trumpets of the Great
Jubilee, and some Vessels that were taken out os
the Temple.
Ccmsiantines Arch is almost entire, only some of
its Statues have lost their Heads, which they say
Laurence de Medias stole, and carry’d to Florence.
It has been observ’d by curious InspeAors, that
the Bafib-relievo's on this Monument are not equal-
ly beautiful, which makes ’em suspeA that the best
Pieces were taken away when it was ereAed.
The Lake os Curtins was in the middle of the
Forum Romanum. Ovid tells us, that even in his
time there were no. Marks of it to be seen.
Curtius ille Lacus siccas qui fuftinet ar as,
Nunc folida est Tellus: [edfuit ayte Lacus.
Fall. 6.
The prodigious Amphitheatre * call’d Colliseum is
round on the outside, tho’ the Arena or Place of | without rec*
Combat is oval. It contain’d s Eighty and five kming theEx-
thousand SpeAators, four times more than the Am- cuneati, whs
phitheatre at Verona. I observ’d, that the Pillars ,he
r J Passaires to tur
- —•-- — —number os
. Twenty
* Becauje of a Colouus that was near it. thousan^
Hie ubi conspicui venerabilis Ampbitheatri
Erigitur Moles, Stagna hieronis erant.
H4
Mart.
of