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of the emperor, so to contribute to his harbor-works. Then there is another problem,
that of providing ships that can carry obelisks up the Tiber; and the successful
experiment shows that the river has just as deep a channel as the Nile. [71] The obelisk
placed by Augustus of Revered Memory in the Circus Maximus was cut by King
Psemetnepserphreus, who was reigning when Pythagoras was in Egypt, and measures
85 feet and 9 inches (25.39 m), apart from its base, which forms part of the same stone.
The obelisk in the Campus Martius, however, which is 9 feet less, was cut by Sesothis.
Both have inscriptions comprising an account of natural science according to the
thories of the Egyptian sages. (D.E. Eichholz).
Plin. H 36.24.114-5: (Marcus Scaurus) in aedilitate hic sua fecit opus maximum
omnium quae umquam fuere humanu manu facta, non temporaria mora, verum etiam
aeternitatis destinatione. Theatrum hoc fuit; scaena ei triplex in altitudinem CCCLX
columnarum in ea civitate quae sex Hymettias non tulerat sine probro civis amplissimi.
Ima pars scaenae e marmore fuit, media e vitro, inaudito etiam postea genere luxuriae;
summa e tabulis inauratis; columnae, ut diximus, imae duodequadragenum pedum.
(Marcus Scaurus) as aedile he constructed the greatest of all the works ever
made by a man, a work that surpassed not merely those erected for a limited period but
even those intended to last for ever. This was his theatre, which had a stage arranged in
three storeys with 360 columns; and this, if you please, in a community that had not
tolerated the presence of six columns of Hymettus marble without reviling a leading
citizen. The lowest storey of the stage was of marble, and the middle one of glass (an
extravagance unparalleled even in later times), while the top storey was made of gilded
planks. The columns of the lowest storey were, as I have stated, each 38 feet high.
(D.E. Eichholz).
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Plut. Alex. 34.2: e[pemye de; kai; Krotwniavtai~ eij~ ∆Italivan mevro~ tw`n lafuvrwn,
th;n Fauvllou tou` ajqlhtou` timw`n proqumivan kai; ajrethvn, o}~ peri; ta; Mhdika;
tw`n a[llwn ∆Italiwtw`n ajpegnwkovtwn tou;~ [Ellhna~ ijdiovstolon e[cwn nau`n
e[pleusen eij~ Salami`na, tou` kinduvnou ti meqevxwn.
He [Alexander] sent also to the people of Croton in Italy a portion of the spoils,
honouring the zeal and valour of their athlete Phayllus, who, in the Median wars, when the
rest of the Greeks in Italy refused to help their brother Greeks, fitted out a ship at his own
cost and sailed with it to Salamis, that he might have some share in the peril there. (B.
Perrin).
Plut. Pomp. 24.6:
tw`n de; ajsuvlwn kai; ajbavtwn provteron iJerw`n ejxevkoyan ejpiovnte~ […] th`~ de;
[Hra~ to;n ejn Savmw/, to;n ejn {Argei, to;n ejpi; Lakinivw/.
Besides, they [the pirates] attacked and plundered places of refuge and sanctuaries
hitherto inviolate, such as [...] those of Hera at Samos, at Argos, and at Lacinium.
(B. Perrin).