A View of Society and Manners in Italy: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Volume 1 |
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Page 451 - Eutropius, 144 feet. It is about twelve feet diameter at the bottom, and ten at the top. It has in the inside 185 steps for ascending to the top. and forty windows for the admission of light. The whole pillar is encrusted with marble, on which are represented the warlike exploits of that emperor, and his army, particularin Dacia.
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