Allan Massie
Beauty in Ruins
If you stand in early morning or evening on either the Capitol or the Palatine and look down on the Roman Forum, it may still appear a romantic place where, as Byron wrote:
in yon field below,
A thousand years of silenced factions sleep –
The Forum, where the immortal accents glow,
And still the eloquent air breathes – burns with Cicero!
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