text:  Nevertheless when Rome possessed orators and poets each of whom has raised "Monumentum aere perennius " in that the golden age of her existence it does not appear says Dr Burney that "except Vitruvius the Romans had one architect sculptor painter or musician; those who have been celebrated in the arts of Rome having been Asiatics or European Greeks who came to exercise such arts among the Latins as the Latins had not among themselves