Misceli. Subj. CX11. 



THE COLUMN OF TRAJAN AT 



Vol FI. No. 66 

 ROME. 



TTo the most beautiful remains of ancient Ro- over a part of Rome. The outside of the 



man architecture belongs the glorious moau- column is adorn'd with the most exquisite 



ment still existing at Rome, which the Emperor sculptures, in bafs -relief, spirally running 



Hadrian, in the name of the Roman people, around the whole. They refer to the actions 



erected to the honour of his great antecessor, oî Trajan , chiefly to the vanquishing of the 



the Emperor Trajan, on the magnificent mar- Dacians , which is exprefs'd by more than 



ket- place or Forum, constructed by the last* 1500 entire and half figures. At first stood 



This column, raised by, the famous archi- on this column the bronce* statue of Trajan 



tect, Apollodorus , is without including the that in the subsequent time was destroy'd. 



pedestal (of 17 feet) 118 feet high, and com- Therefore the Pope Sixtus V. commanded in 



posed of 34 large marble blocks. Inwardly the year 1539 to erect upon it the colossal 



it is hollow; on 185 marble-steps one gets statue of the Apostle Peter, still extant, as 



to the uppermost plate of the chapiter, from we see the whole here represented, 

 whence one enjoys an enchanting prospect 



