Nostra vero memoria cum colossici Apollinis in fano basis esset a vetustate diffracta, et metuentes, ne cederet ea statua et frangeretur, locaverunt ex eisdem lapidicinis basim excidendam.
Within living memory, when the base of the colossal statue of Apollo in the temple had been cracked across by age, it was feared lest the statue should give way and be broken, and a contract was let out for cutting a base from the same quarries.
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