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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e of Janus. He built aforum surrounded by colonnades, in addition to those alreadyexisting, and commenced, in the midst of the city, the vast amphi-theatre, a mountain of stone of which three-fouiths remain standingto-day, striking the beholder with amazement and admiration.Eighty-seven thousand spectators were accommodated on its gigantictiers. A colossal statue raised near by for Xero, but AvhicliVespasian consecrated to the Sun, gave it its name, the Coliseum. * Suet., Ve-pi.sian in 77, was destroyed l)y tire underCommodus. It seems that Constantine substituted his basilica for it.
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VESPASIAN, ()9 TO 79 A.I). 655 He extended the pomœriuin ; it was his right, given him by hisvictories. In Italy he excavated a tunnel under a mountain, to give amore gentle descent to the Flaminian Way, and he rebuilt atIlerculaneum the temple of the Motherof the Gods, which had been throwndown by an earthquarke. Heattempted to stop the continual en-croachments of private persons onthe public domain : at Rome heordered the College of Pontiffs tomake one of these inquests ; ■ atPompeii he sent a tribune to measurethe localities, hear the complaints, andrender to the city what pertained toit : * Vesuvius was soon to bringinto harmony both proprietors andtrespassers by taking all unto itself,even the road of tombs which leadsto the enshrouded city. In the pro-vinces he rebuilt at his own expensecities ruined by earthquakes or byfire ; he constructed roads withoutmolesting the bordering proprietors,^he erected useful monuments, andterminated the disputes of com-munities with reference

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