Note 035
3RD Cause of the Destruction of Rome From Chapter 71 of the Decline & Fall

Porticus aedis Concordiae, quam cum primum ad urbem accessi vidi fere integram opere marmoreo admodum specioso: Romani postmodum ad calcem aedem totam et porticus partem disjectis columnis sunt demoliti p.12).

The temple of Concord was therefore not destroyed by a sedition in the 13th century, as I have read in a MS. treatise del' Governo civile di Rome, lent me formerly at Rome, and ascribed (I believe falsely) to the celebrated Gravina. Poggius likewise affirms that the sepulchre of Caecilia Metella was burnt for lime (p. 19, 20).

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