Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 113
se three tall, graceful columns, rising above thewreck of ages, apparently so frail that a single effort would push them down;and yet they had survived the vicissitudes of time, the storm, and the battle,and, perhaps more destructive than all, the hand of the spoiler.—/K. Forsyth, Rome and its… … Temple of Antoninus and Faustina Argentariiis, or Arch of the Silversmiths, becauseerected by that guild or body in honour of the EmperorSeptiraius Severus, his wife Julia Domna, and their sonsCaracalla and Geta (a.d. 203). The name of the latterwas removed after his murder by Caracalla,* whom…
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