Doubtless, if the weather be fine, and their umbrellas not out of order. The Swiss Guards of his Holiness, in their harlequin hose and doublet, would make good fight. The second coming of the Gauls in 1797 must also astonish them not a little, especially as those same Gauls came not to destroy, but to unbury and rebuild. Truly an interesting visit to the great sewer. But even a sink becomes venerable by age.
Architecture seems to have had more discernment than History in bestowing immortality.
Whilst the stupendous undertaking of a Nero and a Collegially have disappeared and left no trace, the names of Agrippa, of Titus, Trajan, Antoninus, and Constantine still live to fame in unperishing records of marble. Tis a temple of Vesta. For the present I draw the curtain. Lost by thine own unworthy deeds alone.