Message #20017

[Bianca]

STRABO - Book III Chapter 5




THAYER'S NOTE:


 
The Heracleian pillars should be reminders of Heracles' mighty doings, not of the expenses of the

 Phoenicians: O for an ideal world! Alas, Strabo's argument is not conclusive: the colossal inscription

across the façade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome records neither a word of Jesus nor a memorial of St.

 Peter, but that the Pope in whose reign the building was finished was a member of the Borghese family.



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