[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER XXXIX: Gothic Kingdom Of Italy 39/40
30, vii.
6, 13, 15) and the Valesian Fragment, (p.
721.)] [Footnote 66: Var.vii.15.These horses of Monte Cavallo had been transported from Alexandria to the baths of Constantine, (Nardini, p. 188.) Their sculpture is disdained by the Abbe Dubos, (Reflexions sur la Poesie et sur la Peinture, tom.i.section 39,) and admired by Winkelman, (Hist.
de l'Art, tom.ii.p.
159.)] [Footnote 67: Var.x.10.They were probably a fragment of some triumphal car, (Cuper de Elephantis, ii.
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