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which formerly supported the statue of that emperor. It faced the Senate House; and is placed upon a pedestal rising from a pyramidal basement of steps, the whole evidently the plunder of other edifices.

It was erected by Smaragdus, the Exarch of Italy, in A.D. 608, and was excavated by the Countess of Devonshire in 1816.

It is thus mentioned by Byron—

"Tully was not so eloquent as thou,

Thou nameless column with the buried base!"

Childe Harold, iv. 90.

Between the Temples of Saturn and Castor are the remains of