for continuing his career of ambition.--Eutrop. 1. 53.]

[Footnote 149: The Tiber has been always remarkable for the frequency of
its inundations and the ravages they occasioned, as remarked by Pliny,
iii. 5. Livy mentions several such occurrences, as well as one extensive
fire, which destroyed great part of the city.]

[Footnote 150: The well-known saying of Augustus, recorded by Suetonius,
that he found a city of bricks, but left it of marble, has another version
given it by Dio, who applies it to his consolidation of the government, to
the following effect: "That Rome, which I found built of mud, I shall
leave you firm as a rock."--Dio. lvi. p. 589.]

[Footnote 151: The same motive which engaged Julius Caesar to build a new
forum, induced Augustus to erect another. See his life c. xx. It stood
behind the present churches of St. Adrian and St. Luke, and was almost
parallel with the public forum, but there are no traces of it remaining.
The temple of Mars Ultor, adjoining, has been mentioned before, p. 84.]

[Footnote 152: The temple of the Palatine Apollo stood, according to
Bianchini, a little beyond the triumphal arch of Titus. It appears, from
the reverse of a medal of Augustus, to have been a rotondo, with an open
portico, something like the temple of Vesta. The statues of the fifty
daughters of Danae surrounded the portico; and opposite to them were their
husbands on horseback. In this temple were preserved some of the finest
works of the Greek artists, both in sculpture and painting. Here, in the
presence of Augustus, Horace's Carmen Seculare was sung by twenty-seven
noble youths and as many virgins. And here, as our author informs us,
Augustus, towards the end of his reign, often assembled the senate.]

[Footnote 153: The library adjoined the temple, and was under the
protection of Apollo. Caius Julius Hegenus, a freedman of Augustus, and
an eminent grammarian, was the librarian.]

[Footnote 154: The three fluted Corinthian columns of white marble, which
stand on the declivity of the Capitoline hill, are commonly supposed to be
the remains of the temple of Jupiter Tonans, erected by Augustus. Part of
the frieze and cornice are attached to them, which with the capitals of
the columns are finely wrought. Suetonius tells us on what occasion this
temple was erected. Of all the epithets given to Jupiter, none conveyed
more terror to superstitious minds than that of the Thunderer--

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