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OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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CHAP. II.
_____that illustrious citizen confined to the walls of Athens. The most splendid ornaments bestowed on the temple of Neptune in the Isthmus, a theatre at Corinth, a stadium at Delphi, a bath at Thermopylae, and an aqueduct at Canusium in Italy, were insufficient to
exhaust his treasures. The people of Epirus, Thessaly, Eubcea, Bceotia, and Peloponnesus, experienced his favours ; and many inscriptions of the cities of Greece and Asia gratefully style Herodes Atticus their
patron and benefactor[1].
- ↑ See Philostrat. 1. ii. p. 548. 560. Pausanias, 1. i. and vii. 10. The life of Herodes, in the thirtieth volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions.
- ↑ It is particularly remarked of Athens by Dicaearchus, de Statu Graeciae, p. 8. inter Geographos Minores, edit. Hudson.
- ↑ Donatus de Roma Vetere, 1. iii. c. 4, 5, 6. Nardini Roma Antica, l.iii. 11, 12, 13. and a manuscript description of ancient Rome, by Bernardus Oricellarius, or Rucellai, of which I obtained a copy from the library of the canon Ricardi at Florence. Two celebrated pictures of Timanthes and of Protogenes are mentioned by Pliny as in the temple of Peace j and the Laocoon was found in the baths of Titus.