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Plutarch, Publicola, 15.3

nan The fourth temple, which is now standing on the same site as the others, was both completed and consecrated by Domitian. It is said that Tarquin expended upon its foundations forty thousand pounds of silver. But time greatest wealth now attributed to any private citizen of Rome would not pay the cost of the gilding alone of the present temple, which was more than twelve thousand talents. For purposes of comparison a talent may be reckoned as worth £250, or

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catulus,quintus lutatius	Jenkyns (2013) 332
claudius,roman emperor,expulsion of jews from rome by	Feldman (2006) 551
domitian,public architecture	Jenkyns (2013) 332
juno,temples of	Jenkyns (2013) 332
jupiter best and greatest,temple of,restorations	Jenkyns (2013) 332
jupiter best and greatest,temple of	Jenkyns (2013) 332
olympian zeus,temple at athens	Jenkyns (2013) 332
proportion	Jenkyns (2013) 332
temple of olympian zeus at athens	Jenkyns (2013) 332
temples,as display expenditure'	Jenkyns (2013) 332
zeus,temple at athens	Jenkyns (2013) 332