Rambles in Rome; an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1887)
Forbes, S. Russell · London, New York, T.Nelson · leaf 46
dicated, 10 n.c, to the Sun, asthe inscription infonns us: imt. cak-s. divi. k.—aU(JUstus—pontifkx MAXIMUS—IMF. XII. COS. XI. TRIH. IOT. — FOrULI HOMANI UEDACTA. -BOM DONUM DKDIT. Ammianus Marcellinus (xvii. 4) supplies us with the followinginfonnation relative to obelisks :— In this city of… … HAM HI.K I. thrown ilown aiul broktMi, wliich the ancient kinors, Nvlun elatei atsome %nctorv or at the general prosperity of their amtii-s, had cans., tobe hewn out of mountains in .listant pai-ts of the world, and erected inhonour of the g..ls to wlumi they sohnnnly consecrateil them. « Now, :ui…
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