Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 1 - The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

State and Subject 

larsstandinginfrontofit.Unlikemodernscholars,thispasser-bycouldalso,
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somemetresabovewherehewasstanding,thebronzeimageofCaesar
Augustuswhichroseoverthetomb.Returningtothetext,hewasprobably
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