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citizens of Rome fill up the emptiness
With temples, baths, circuses, amphitheatres, colonnades, libraries, and statues the new regime was to flourish its magnificence in the eyes of the world and, above all, to dazzle the citizens of Rome, fill up the emptiness of their lives, and make them forget, if it were possible, the magnitude of their loss. Money was lavished upon this object by the emperor and all his friends, and the building activity which transformed Rome {244} from a city of brick into a city of marble must have given work and pay to vast numbers of the poor. — from The Grandeur That Was Rome by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart
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