[Footnote 14: Vidimus flavum Tiberim, retortis Littore
Etrusco violenter undis, Ire dejectum monumenta Regis
Templaque Vestae.
(Horat. Carm. I. 2.)
If the palace of Numa and temple of Vesta were thrown down
in Horace's time, what was consumed of those buildings by
Nero's fire could hardly deserve the epithets of
vetustissima or incorrupta.]