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The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles -Lettres at Paris.

By the Abbe FRAGUIER,

Paris , May 13, 1718,

JD 0 M E, for a long Time, had no Notion or Taste

*“ of the polite, ingenious Arts. The Romans didnot know the Value of them, till MarcelluSy Scipio , Fla-miniusy Paulus Emiliusy and Mummius exposed to theirView the noblest Works of Art, with which Syracuse ,Asay Macedonia , Corinth , Achaiay and Boeotia wereadorned f. The beautiful Statues and Sculptures inBrass and Marble, which had been the Ornaments ofTemples and publick Places In those conquered Countries,were beheld by the Romans with high Admiration.

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% See Plin. 53. and Cicero in Verrem. L. x. No. 23. Urbem to-

tam, templa Deorum, omnesque Italiae partes illorum donis ac monumentisexornatas videmus, &c. - 1