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 The Roman Empire to the Inumph of Christianity The cultivated Roman gentleman now makes his tour of the Mediterranean much as does the modern man of means. In the writings of the Empire we may follow the Roman tourist as he wanders along the foot of the Acropolis of Athens (Plate III, p. 1 80) and catche's a vision of vanished greatness as it was in the days of Themistocles and Pericles. He strolls through the porch A tour of the Medi- terranean in the Empire; Greece Fig. 119. Roman Bridge and Aqueduct at Nimes, France This structure was built by the Romans about the year 20 a.d. to supply the Roman colony of Nemausus (now called Nimes) in south- ern France with water from two excellent springs twenty-five miles distant. It is nearly nine hundred feet long and one hundred sixty feet high, and carried the water over the valley of the river Gard. The channel for the water is at the very top, and one can still walk through it. The miles of aqueduct on either side of this bridge and leading up to it have almost disappeared of the Stoics, where Stoic philosophy was first taught, and he renews pleasant memories of student days when as a youth he studied here. He remembers also how he went occasionally over to the Academy (p. 210), v/here he heard the teaching of Plato's successors. If his journey takes him to Delphi (Fig. 82), he finds it still a vivid story of the victories of Hellas in the days of her greatness,