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Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)

Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 250

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Y of CAPUA. IN the number of the antiquitiesof Naples, methinks I may men-tion thole of the ancient city of Ca-pua, This place, which is but tenleagues diftant from the other, andabout two miles from modern Ca-pua, we find upon the road to Rome,and by the great number of ruins,it feems to have been… … I C ^59 ] theatre, and that too greatly da-maged, the plan of which, by theform of its curve, refembles the Co-lifeum at Rome, I think it will beproper to obferve, that it was com-pofed, at moft, of three orders, thefirft of which, by the profil of itsentablature, feems to be of the Do-rick. Yet…

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