BOOK XXXIV. XII. 27-xiii. 29 



The purport of placing statues of men on columns 

 was to elevate them above all other mortals ; which 

 is also the meaning conveyed by the new invention 

 of arches. Nevertheless the honour originally began 

 with the Greeks, and I do not think that any person 

 ever had more statues erected to him than Demetrius " 

 of Phalerum had at Athens, inasmuch as they set up 

 360, at a period when the year did not yet exceed 

 that number of days, statues however the Athenians 

 soon shattered in pieces. At Rome also the tribes „ 



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in all the districts set up statues to Marius statues. 

 Gratidianus, as we have stated, and Hkewise threw xxxiii. 

 them down again at the entrance of Sulla. 1^2. 



XIII. Statues of persons on foot undoubtedly 

 held the field at Rome for a long time ; equestrian 

 statues also however are of considerable antiquity, 

 and this distinction was actually extended to women 

 with the equestrian statue of CloeUa, as if it were 

 not enough for her to be clad in a toga, although 

 statues were not voted to Lucretia and Brutus, who 

 had driven out the kings owing to whom Cloelia had 510-609 

 been handed over with others as a hostage.^ I ^"^" 

 should have held the view that her statue and that of 

 Cocles were the first erected at the pubHc expense — oos b.c. 

 for it is probable that the monuments to Attus and 

 the Sibyl were erected by Tarquin and those of the § 22. 

 kings by themselves — were it not for the statement 

 of Piso that the statue of CloeHa also was erected by 

 the persons who had been hostages with her, when 

 they were given back by Porsena, as a mark of 

 honour to her ; whereas on the other hand Annius 

 FetiaHs states that an equestrian figure which once 



the expixlsion of the Tarquins by Brutus and his companions 

 and the estabUshment of the repubHcan government. 



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