honourof giving its name to the piazza which its principal fa$ade decorates.In the middle of the piazza a jet of water plays in a basin of orientalgranite; Pius VII. brought it thither from the Forum; above thebasin stand in hard outline against the sky two athletic statues andtwo horses of marble,… … of Augustus. These fine figures, and still finer coursers—groups in The Surroundings. 275 which the Ouirites amused themselves by recognising their old patrons,Castor and Pollux—these masterpieces attributed to Praxiteles andPhidias, chose the hill for pedestal, and renamed it. Unfortunately,they…
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