Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 171
essity to the arclntect in tliat city.Custoni presently converted tliis into an invariable law among theRomans, even when ample space was available for their buildings.The théâtres, which they built after the Greeks, and the amphi-théâtres, which they copied from the Italian nations, were at… … the ephemeral and unstable charact?r of thèse structures, soonobliged them to build their amphithéâtres of masonry. One of thefirst thus built was the théâtre of Pompey at Rome, now in ruins ;and before long stone amphithéâtres were constructed, not only atRome, but in nearly ail the cities of the…
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