38/40 19;) and Nardini, (Roma Antica, p. 514--522.) How such works could be executed by a king of Rome, is yet a problem. 402. These stupendous works are among the most striking confirmations of Niebuhr's views of the early Roman history; at least they appear to justify his strong sentence--"These works and the building of the Capitol attest with unquestionable evidence that this Rome of the later kings was the chief city of a great state."-- Page 110--M.] [Footnote 65: For the Gothic care of the buildings and statues, see Cassiodorus (Var.i.21, 25, ii. |