ivine Claudius. The municipaloffices, which had suffered severely from the earthquake of a.d. 63.were restored under the Flavians, but were not completed in a. d.79 ;and, to crown the whole, a temple of Vespasian (still unfinished atthe time of the citys destruction) took its place hard by the… … 3 ato si <» G 28 INTRODUCTORY chap, i If Pompeii represents the town-life of Italy under the Empire,the ruins of Timgad (which has not without reason been called theAfrican Pompeii) picture to us the cities which sprang up at thefiat of the emperors in those Western lands which lacked thehigher…
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