The Classic And Connoisseur in Italy And Sicily With An Appendix Containing An
The Classic And Connoisseur in Italy And Sicily With An Appendix Containing An
G W D George William David Evans
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It was a little thatched house; and very ill fur- nished: — Romuleoque recens horrebat regia culmo. — /En. Viii. 654. Quae fuerit nostri si qua?ris regia nati, Aspice de canna straminibusque domum : In stipula placidi carpebat munera somni. — Ovid. Fast. Iii. 185. t Fictilibus crevere deis haec aurea templa; Nee fuit opprobrio facta sine arte casa. — Propcrt. Iv. El. I. 6. Jupiter antiqua vix totus stabat in aede; Inque Jovis dextra fictile fulmen erat. — Ovid. Fast. L. I. 202. Fictilis et null...o violatus Jupiter auro. — Juv. Sat. Ii. 116. Lignea aut fictilia deorum simulacra in delubris dicata usque ad devictam Asiam. — Plin. N. H. Xxxiv. 7. Spence's Polymetis. 236 ROME. reckoned better than ordinary; for many of them were chopped out of wood. " " Conquest, which was ever dearer to the Roman re- public than its own liberty, spread at last to Greece, and brought home the fine arts in objects of plunder. Their captive gods, too beautiful or sublime for the rude old structures of Italy, obliged the Romans to raise for them temples in imitation of the Greek*.
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