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 121
cavated in 1813,it was discovered to have been- raised in honour of the Ii8 THE LAC US CURTIUS. worthless Emperor Phocas, whose gilt statue stood onthe top, by the Exarch Smaragdus, a.d. 608. In a preceding paragraph we have spoken of theLacus Curtius. To whom is it not familiar % In whosememory is… … Curtius Leaping into the Gulf.—(From a Basso-Relievo at the Villa Borghese.) augurs that it could not be filled up except by fling-ing into it that on which Romes greatness was founded.When this oracle was announced, men turned to eachother with wondering faces, and debated what could bethe…
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