Note 064
As an antiquarian and a priest, Montfaucon
thus deprecates the ruin of the Coliseum:
Quôd si non suopte
merito atque pulchritudine dignum fuisset quod improbas
arceret manus, indigna res utique in locum tot martyrum
cruore sacrum tantopere saevitum esse.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 71