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 262
nd five hundredfigures, besides animals and other details. Dion Cassius (Xiphilin, Trajan) says : He erected in the forumthat bears his name a vast pillar, as well to serve as a receptacle forhis bones as to be a monument of his magnificence to posterity.In good earnest, it was a piece of work that… … 220 llA.MliLK IV. through a mouutaiu as high as the piUai, to make the level for theforum. The bones of Trajan were put into the pillar we have mentioned;and, to reverence his memory, sports were celebrated for severalyears after, which were called Parthica (Dion Cassius, Hadrian). Trajan, of all…
