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Identifier: archoftitusspoil1896knig (find matches)
Title: The arch of Titus and the spoils of the temple ...
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Knight, William, 1789 or 90-1878
Subjects: Jews -- History 586 B.C.-70 A.D Rome (Italy) -- Arch of Titus Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Publisher: (London) : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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there, nor Domitian, who followed him onhorseback. He is supported, in the background,by twelve lictors ; whose rods of office are withouttheir axes :^ and, in front and round about thechariot, by senators and others in their festivalcostume,—an ample train of nobles all in white,^—crowned with laurel and with branches in theirhands: and some mythical personage, by the sideof the chariot, seems to be marshalling the proces-sion. The horses are decorated with the sacredcrescents which were worn in the Circus and on all 1 Paradise Regained^ iv. 45, 138. 2 One might perhaps expect this omission on such anoccasion as a triumph: but it may be otherwise accountedfor. By a regulation, introduced by Valerius, in the firstconsulate, it was enacted that the axes should never becarried through the city; a restriction which Dionysius Hali-carnassus tells us (Antiq. Rom. v. xix.) continued up to histime. 3 Preecedentia longi Agminis officia, et niveos ad frnenaOuirites,—Juvenal, Sat. X. 44,
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84 THE ARCH OF TITUS great occasions; and Rome herself, distinguishedby her spear and helmet, conducts them by a littleleading rein.^ The sculptures on the other side of the Archrepresent the spoils which were taken from theTemple. They are borne aloft by Roman soldiers,not by Jewish captives, as some writers representthem ; for they are crowned with laurel, and theyhave in their hands the short and pointless spearsthat had been given them when they started.^They are also accompanied by persons of higherrank, with laurel crowns and branches, as before,and one of them carries some trappings on hisbreast.^ These, as the most important part of the Spoils, 1 Belloris Comment, in Bartoli, p. 8. Montfaucon, HAutiq.Expl. torn. V. VII. v. 2 See Note 3, p. 57. 3 Bellori says, in reference to this figure, which comesimmediately after the candlestick,— Eques phaleris ornatushabet cingulum in pectore cum claviculis aureis. But hedoes not tell us what these phaleiO are, which this Romanknight is

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