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The
gate beside the library is a three-arch gateway in the style of Roman
victory
monuments. Rich friezes are on the three sections above the plaster
supports
between doorways. The upper portion is in Attic style. There are
two niches in
each of the side openings.
Mazeus and Mithridates were slaves of
Emperor Augustus who, upon manumission, received permission from their former
master and built this lovely archway dedicated to Augustus, his wife Livia,
and daughter Julia and her husband just a few years before Christ.
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