Quippe in regiones quatuordecim Roma
dividitur, quarum quatuor integræ manebant, tres solo tenus
dejectæ: septem reliquis pauca tectorum vestigia
supererant, lacera et semiusta.
Among the old relics that were irreparably lost, Tacitus enumerates the temple of the moon of Servius Tullius; the fane and altar consecrated by Evander praesenti Herculi; the temple of Jupiter Stator, a vow of Romulus; the palace of Numa; the temple of Vesta cum Penatibus populi Romani. He then deplores the
opes tot
victoriis quæsitæ et Græcarum artium decora . . . . multa quæ seniores meminerant, quæ reparari nequibant (Annals xv. 40, 41).