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 286 Outlines of European History Like our own modern fellow citizens in the same land, their clothing betrays every touch of the latest mode. They berate the slow mails, languidly discuss the latest news from Rome while with indolent curiosity they visit the Pyramids of Gizeh (Plate I), or spend a lazy afternoon carving their names on the colossal statues which overshadow the mighty plain of Eg}^ptian Thebes (Fig. 29). On these monuments we find their scribv blings at the present day. Everywhere throughout the eastern Fig. 121. Roman Bridge at St. Chamas ix Southern France This Roman bridge with its handsome portals was built in the time of the Emperor Augustus; that is, about the beginning of the Christian era Mediterranean the ^Roman hears Greek and speaks it with his friends. As he moves westward again, however, he begins to hear more Latin. The West Seneca, one of the wisest of the Romans, said, " Wherever a Roman has conquered, there he also lives." This was true to some extent everywhere, but especially in the West. Colonies were sejit out to the confines of the Empire, and the remains of great public buildings, of theaters and bridges, of sumptuous villas and baths at places like Treves (Trier), Cologne, Bath, and Salzburg, indicate how thoroughly the influence and civili- zation of Rome penetrated to the utmost parts of the territory