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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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By temperament thoroughly Orientaland therefore despotic; by experience a militaryprecisian; by education an indefatigable workerin a way quite un-Oriental, he became the mostlogical, and the ultimate centralizer, among theemperors. His success was partly due to thehypnotism exercised by absolute fearlessness.He never showed it more clearly than when hechose to abdicate of his own free will at a timelong previously planned, amid perfect peace, andleaving the empire in the hands of men of hisown choice. He then came to Spalato. In approaching Spalato after rounding theisland of Bua one can hardly feel its original at-mosphere without eliminating a few modernbuildings that disfigure the left side of the an-cient site. The natural surroundings are superb,with Mount Mossor as a background and therocky foothills reaching almost to the shore toframe the enormous bulk of Diocletians palace,with its southern fa9ade crowning the watersedge. This is both the palace and the tomb of the «1b?^.^-
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Plate mi •ROMAN CITIES 311 - • last really great emperor. As we skirt its water-front for about six hundred feet we graduallyunderstand that there is no parallel to what w^eare seeing: a medieval city of nearly twentythousand people built largely inside the walls ofan imperial fortified villa-palace, planned like amihtary camp and yet a monument of luxuryand magnificence. We can leave our baggage at a modern hotelrecently opened, mirabile dictu, by a Philadel-phian, and avoiding the distractions of medievaldetails and native costumes, project ourselvesinto a monument which will give us a more ar-resting sense of imperial despotism than thescattered and bald ruins of the palaces of theCaesars in Rome. In doing this w^e can stillfollow the restoration made by the Englisharchitect Adam more than a century ago, withthe help of the modern plan. As usual, the ancient level is considerably be-low the modern street, so that it is onlv in theexcavated area about the mausoleum that theorigi

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