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stood opposite the temple of Jupiter Stator in the 

 forecourt of Tarquinius Superbus's palace was the 

 statue of Valeria, daughter of Publicola, the consul, 

 and that she alone had escaped and had swum 

 across the Tiber, the other hostages who were being 

 sent to Porsena having been made away with by a 

 stratagem of Tarquin. 



XIV. Lucius Piso has recorded that, in the 

 consulship of Marcus Aemihus and the second of 153 b.c. 

 Gaius Popilius, the censors Publius CorneUus Scipio 



and Marcus PopiHus caused all the statues round the 

 forum of men Mho had held office as magistrates to be 

 removed excepting those that had been set up by a 

 resolution of the people or the Senate, while the 

 statue which Spurius Cassius, who had aspired to 485 b.c. 

 monarchy, had erected in his own honour before the 

 temple of the Earth was actually melted down by 

 censors : obviously the men of those days took 

 precautions against ambition in the matter of statues 

 also. Some declamatory utterances made by Cato 

 during his censorship are extant protesting against 134 e.c. 

 the erection in the Roman provinces of statues to 

 women ; yet all the same he was powerless to prevent 

 this being done at Rome also : for instance there is 

 the statue of CorneHa the mother of the Gracchi 

 and daughter of the elder Scipio Africanus. This 

 represents her in a sitting position and is remarkable 

 because there are no straps to the shoes ; it stood 

 in the public colonnade of Metellus, but is now in 

 Octavia's Buildings." 



XV. The first statue publicly erected at Rome by 

 foreigners was that in honour of the tribune of the 

 people Gaius Aelius, for having introduced a law 

 against Sthennius Stallius the Lucanian who had 



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