Chap. 15.] STATUES ERECTED BY FORETO^EHS, 



people or of the senate. The statue also which Spurius 

 Cassius, 86 who had aspired to the supreme authority, had 

 erected in honour of himself, hefore the Temple of Tellus, was 

 melted down by order of the censors; for even in this respect, 

 the men of those days took precautions against ambition. 



There are still extant some declamations by Cato, during 

 his censorship, against the practice of erecting statues of 

 women in the Roman provinces. However, lie could not 

 prevent these statues being erected at Koine even ; to Cornelia, 

 for instance, the mother of the Gracchi, and daughter of the 

 elder Scipio Africanus. She is represented in a sitting pos- 

 ture, and the statue is remarkable for having no straps to the 

 shoes. This statue, which was formerly in the public Portico 

 of ITetellus, is now in the Buildings of Octavia.* 1 



CHAP. 15. THE FIKST STATUES PUBLICLY ERECTED BY 



FOUKIGN'KUS. 



The first statue that was erected at Home at the expense of 

 a foreigner was that of C. JElius, the tribune of the people, 

 who had introduced a law against Sthennius Statilius Lu- 

 canus, 89 for having twice attacked Thurii : on which account 

 the inhabitants of that place presented JElius with a statue 

 and a golden crown. At a later period, the same people 

 erected a statue to Fabricius, M who had delivered their city 

 from a state of siege. From time to time various nations 

 thus placed themselves under the protection of the Romans ; 

 and all distinctions were thereby so effectually removed, that 

 statues of Hannibal even are to be seen in three different 

 places in that city, within the walls of which, he alone of all 

 its enemies, Iiad hurled his spear. 90 



6 See Chapter 9. 



87 * In Octavirc operibus." Those were certain public buildings, erected 

 in Rome by Augustus, and named by him after his sister Octavia ; they are 

 mentioned by Suetonius. H. 



M Valerius Maximus refers to this event, but he names the individual 

 Stntius Servilius, U. i. c. *, $ 6. 1*. *'> See B. xxxiii. cc. 50, 51. 



90 \Vo have an account of the attack by Hannibal on Home in the 

 twenty-sixth Hook <>f Livy, but we have no mention of the particular cir- 

 cumstance here referred to. IJ. 



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