Capitolo 60
It was on an impediment of tablet in the wall of the temple of Hercules, and
he/she commemorates the triumphant return to Rome of Mummius, the conqueror of
Corinth. Sharp again a good old days of contempt Roman for the Greek
art and his ignorance, for Mummius in his/her stupid indifference to the
beautiful monuments of Corinth, the typical Philistine was manufactured for
every duration. It sharpens in ahead to the civilization Greek-Roman and new of Italy,
because the jobs of art that it is said that Mummius has brought again with,
the Greek and he that probably followed in his/her train, augmented that
brook of the Greek influence that you/they swept of next century or two through
the peninsula.
In the same primitive meter as these dedications the Song of the Arval is
Brothers that were found they engraved on a stone in the grove of the goddess
Goddess Gives, some miles out in Rome. This hymn the priests sang to the
Party of May of the goddess, when the growers brought them the first one
the earth's fruits. It doesn't have literary and intrinsic worth, but it brings us
back over the great wars with Carthage for the supremacy in the westerner
Mediterranean, over the dispute with Pyrrhus for overlordship in
Southern Italy, over the struggle for the life with the Samnites in Central
Italy, over also the foundation of the city on the Tiber to a people that
lived cultivating the ground and taking takes care of him of their flocks and herds.
But we have turned away from the verses of dedicatory. On the bridges that
you cross our brooks we sometimes record the names of the commissioners or the
engineers or the builders of responsible bridge for the structure. Perhaps
we am wise in to think these prosaic registrations appropriate for ours ugly
iron bridges. Their more picturesque structures of stone tried the Romans
now and then to leave to fall in toward, and to go over a naked affirmation of the
facts of construction. On the Anio in Italy, on a bridge that Narses,
the great general of Justinian, restored, the Roman, as he passed, reads in