Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
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y-eight feet by sixty-seven, having fluted columns on eachside, and the sanctum, or place for the altar and statue, occupiesa space of twenty-nine feet deep at the western end and consid-erably raised above the floor of the nave. Such were the ar-rangements of this vast magnificent edifice. It may… … 474 PAXTHEOX AT ROME. erected by M. Agrippa, the friend of Augustus, in immediateconnection ^vith the Thermcie, built and dedicated to JupiterUltor by him. This building, which embodied, as it were, thehighest aspirations of Roman national pride and power, was com-pleted, according to the original…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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