Excerpt from Soirées Littéraires Et ArtistiquesLes belles fontaines étaient nombren ses. Des décorations monumentales ornaient la ville. Ainsi dans un Quadri vium, carrefour, où se croisaient quatre rues principales, rues du Forum, de Mer cure, des Thermes et de la Fortune s'élevaient des ares de triomphe revêtus de marbre, et couronnés de statues. Là, où règne aujourd'hui le silence des rui nes, s'àgitait' jadis une foule bruyante.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.