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Column

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The Alexandrine Column. Made of granite; in memory of the Emperor Alexander.

The Column of Antonïnus. At Rome; made of marble, 176 feet high; in memory of the Emperior Marcus Aurelius Antonïnus. Like that of Trajan, this column is covered externally with spiral basreliefs representing the wars carried on by the emperor.

Sixtus V. caused the original statue of this column to be supplanted by a figure of St. Paul. (See Trajan’s Column.)

The Column of Arcadius. At Constantinople; made of marble.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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