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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: Titus by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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buildings destroyed were the temples of Serapis and Isis, that of
Neptune, the baths of Agrippa, the Septa, the theatres of Balbus and
Pompey, the buildings and library of Augustus on the Palatine, and the
temple of Jupiter in the Capitol.

[793] See VESPASIAN, cc. i. and xxiv. The love of this emperor and his
son Titus for the rural retirement of their paternal acres in the Sabine
country, forms a striking contrast to the vicious attachment of such
tyrants as Tiberius and Caligula for the luxurious scenes of Baiae, or
the libidinous orgies of Capri.

[794] A.U.C. 834, A.D. 82.
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