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LIBER XXXVI · CAPUT 11

THE OBELISK WHICH SERVES AS A DIAL IN THE CAMPUS MARTIUS

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THE OBELISK WHICH SERVES AS A DIAL IN THE CAMPUS MARTIUS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Tertius est Romae in Vaticano Gai et Neronis principum circo—ex omnibus unus omnino fractus est in molitione—, quem fecerat Sesosidis filius Nencoreus. eiusdem remanet et alius centum cubitorum, quem post caecitatem visu reddito ex oraculo Soli sacravit.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

The third obelisk at Rome is in the Vaticanian Circus, which was constructed by the Emperors Caius and Nero; this being the only one of them all that has been broken in the carriage. Nuncoreus, the son of Sesoses, made it: and there remains another by him, one hundred cubits in height, which, by order of an oracle, he consecrated to the Sun, after having lost his sight and recovered it.