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CHAP, exactly answering to that of thin pil/ar, which 
'i i.^.N ' Ccesar dedicated to Nemesis, the protecting god- 
dess of the relics and the memory of deceased 
persons. This, it seems, was overthrown in the 
time of Trajan; which may explain the cause of 
its restoration hj Hadrian. It is also worthy of 
notice, that Pococke mentions a name given to 
this monument by Arabian historians, which 
bears testimony to the event recorded hy Appian; 
inasmuch as it attributes the origin of the work 
to Julius CcBsar^. The presumptive evidence is 
therefore somewhat striking, as to the correspond- 
ing testimony borne by the monument itself to the 
funeral honours rendered to Pompey bothbyJ'w/m^ 
C^sar and by Hadrian, whatsoever be the legend of 
\hQ Inscription upon its pedestal. A circumstance 
recorded by Dio Cassius, in his life of Hadrian, 
may also prove that this kind of monument was, 
in the age of that Emperor, no unusual mark of 
sepulchral dignity ; for when he wished to honour 
sepeliri jussit in suburbis, sacelhtmqvie ibi dedicav'it Nemeseos ; qnod 
nostra Betate, quumTrajanus Augustus Judsos exitiali bello persfcjucre- 
tur, abhisob praesentem necessitatem est dirutuin." ^Ippitini Rom, 
Hist.De Bell. Civil, lib. ii. vol. U.p. 299. Ed. Schwelgh. Lips. 1785. 
(l) " Some /Jrabian liistorians, on wh^tauthoriti/1 know not, call it 
the Palace of Julius Cssar." (PococJic's Descript. of the East, vol. I. 
p. 8. Lond. 1743.) The authority is dearly found in the circumstance 
related by Jppian (De Bell. Civil, lib. ii. c. 90. Lips. 1785.) of the shrine 
{t'iia-m,) constructed by Julius Casar at tlic funeral of Potnpey's head. 
