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is a city frozen in time, a city that has not seen a modern building in more than half a century.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Richard Meier

is a city greater than any upon earth, whose amplitude no eye can measure, whose beauty no imagination can picture.

A city greater than any upon earth, whose amplitude no eye can measure, whose beauty no imagination can picture. [of Rome] CLAUDIAN (4th c. A.D.)

is a mother. Rome is a whore. Rome can be domineering, imperious, corrupt, vicious. But rome can never be ungenerous. Rome gives all of her sensual pleasures, without stint.

Rome is a mother. Rome is a whore. Rome can be domineering, imperious, corrupt, vicious. But Rome can never be ungenerous. Rome gives all of her sensual pleasures, without stint. Ibid. BURGESS, Anthony (1917 )

is a place to which all things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tacitus

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. John Berger

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest... Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem... and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli

is the place that Caesar Augustus found a city built of brick, and left built of marble.

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick... he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accept, mamoream relinquit.] Suetonius

1s 2ecline was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Instead of inquiring why the roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprized that it had subsisted so long.

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness . . . as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure ol its own weight. The story of its ruin is simple and obvious and instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprized that it had subsisted so long. GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794)

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