the Capitol, and the Adonis of the VillaAlbani, have slumbered amid these thickets. By the reign of Caracalla, this sublime madness of Adrian was onlya storeroom; after Totila, who besieged Tivoli, the villa became aquarry. Its gardens, in turn abandoned and restored to cultivation,owe to these… … REMAINS OF THE VILLA ADRIANA, CHAPTER XXIII.
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