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1587. After these triumphs were over, and after the affairs of the Romans were settled on the surest foundations, Vespasian resolved to build a temple to Peace, which was finished in so short a time, and in so glorious a manner, as was beyond all human expectation and opinion: 159for he having now by Providence a vast quantity of wealth, besides what he had formerly gained in his other exploits, he had this temple adorned with pictures and statues; 160for in this temple were collected and deposited all such rarities as men aforetime used to wander all over the habitable world to see, when they had a desire to see one of them after another; 161he also laid up therein, as ensigns of his glory, those golden vessels and instruments that were taken out of the Jewish temple. 162But still he gave order that they should lay up their Law, and the purple veils of the holy place, in the royal palace itself, and keep them there.
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