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He completed the works which were left unfinished by Tiberius, namely, the temple of Augustus, and the theatre of Pompey.
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He began, likewise, the aqueduct from the neighbourhood of
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Tibur
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,
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and an amphitheatre near the
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Septa
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of which works, one was completed by his successor Claudius, and the other remained as he left it. The walls of
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Syracuse
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, which had fallen to decay by length of time, he repaired, as he likewise did the temples of the gods. He formed plans for rebuilding the palace of Polycrates at
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Samos
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, finishing the temple of the Didymaean Apollo at
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Miletus
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, and building a town on a ridge of the
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Alps
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; but, above all, for cutting through the isthmus in Achaia
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and even sent a centurion of the first rank to measure out the work.