37/40 According to the modern prices, the Abbe Barthelemy computes that the brick work and masonry of the Coliseum would now cost twenty millions of French livres, (Mem. de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxviii.p.585, 586.) How small a part of that stupendous fabric!] [Footnote 64: For the aqueducts and cloacae, see Strabo, (l.v.p. 360;) Pliny, (Hist.Natur.xxxvi. 24; Cassiodorus, Var.iii.30, 31, vi. |