human
That tower is nineteen hundred feet above the sea, said the Professor.
gpt
It was built by the Romans, on the boundary between Liguria and Gaul, to commemorate a victory gained by Augustus Cæsar over the Ligurians. It was called Tropæum Augusti, from which it has degenerated into Turbia. Fragments of the inscription it once bore have been found on stones built into the houses of the present village. The inscription itself is, fortunately, fully preserved in Pliny, as follows: 'To Cæsar, son of the divine Cæsar Augustus, Emperor for the fourteenth time, in the seventeenth year of his reign, the Senate and the Roman people have decreed this monument, in token that under his orders and auspices all the Alpine races have been subdued by Roman arms. Names of the vanquished:' and here follow the names of forty-five Alpine races.
human
The village behind the tower--we cannot see it from here--seems to be principally built of fragments of the old Roman stone-work, said Lloyd.
gpt
I have been up there several times.
human
Then we do not see the Trophy as it was?
gpt
No; it is but a ruin, although it looks imposing from here. It was used as a fortress during the Middle Ages, and partially destroyed by the French at the beginning of the last century.
human
It must have been majestic indeed, since, after all its dismemberment, it still remains so majestic now,