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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 138

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b. c. we read that one L. Ster-tinius set up three fornices out of the booty taken in his campaignsin Spain. Two of these seem to have given access to temple-precincts, the third stood in the Circus Maximus. They supportedstatues of gilded bronze. Three years later Scipio Africanus erecteda, fornix… … a. Arch at Orange.

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