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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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d his supreme direction. He wastraining the two Caesars to the succession. Diocletian had long planned to retire on thetwentieth anniversary of his accession, at the ageof 58. He announced his decision. He then putit off for a year to allow JNIaximian to com-plete his twenty years. The solemn abdicationtook place on May 1, 305. It was then that Diocletian withdrew to Salonato live in the palace which was being built in asmall bay near the city, under the name Aspala-thos. Here he lived and grew cabbages untilhis death in 313, except for a few journeys in-cluding a long stay at Sirmium in 306, perhapsin connection with work at the quarries for thepalace. He had a meeting at Sirmium in 307when he was begged to return to power to quellincreasing disorders. We must believe that the palace had been incourse of construction for a number of years be-fore 305, even though it was not then completed.Probably it had been begun as early as 293 when Spalato, Interior of Mausoleum (Wlha) Plate Lvin
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Spalato, Dome of Mausoleum of Diocletian (Wlha) Plate Lix ROMAN CITIES 321 the two Caesars were selected as successors forhimself and INIaximian. The emperor had otherlarge palaces. That at Xicomedia was the mostextensive, like a superb camp. Others were atAquileia and in the east. The architects are unknown. From similarityto work at Palmyra and elsewhere in Syria, wemay conjecture that they belonged to the schoolof Antioch, though the schools of Asia Minor,such as Nicomedia, need not be excluded. Thetwo provinces had been for centuries in the clos-est artistic relation. The emperors last years, as we know^ ^ereembittered by the struggles between Maxentius,Constantine and Licinius, and, at last, by thetragic fate of his own mother and wife. Afterhis death the palace was turned by the govern-ment into a factory for cloth weaving in whichthe personnel was entirely female, under officialinspection. In memory of the emperor it wascalled Jovetise, It was threatened and damagedby barbarian

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