[Footnote 23: The Romans were still attached to the
monuments of their ancestors; and according to Procopius,
(Goth. l. iv. c. 22,) the gallery of Aeneas, of a single
rank of oars, 25 feet in breadth, 120 in length, was
preserved entire in the navalia, near Monte Testaceo, at the
foot of the Aventine, (Nardini, Roma Antica, l. vii. c. 9,
p. 466. Donatus, Rom Antiqua, l. iv. c. 13, p. 334) But all
antiquity is ignorant of relic.]