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A triumph of Christianity over paganism, the Corinthian-columned church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva was built on the site of a Roman temple under Augustus.
Thus the French île reminds us that the word was once spelled isle , from Latin insula; the name of the eight month, Août , reminds us that it came from the Latin augustus; and être betrays its origins as Latin esse with the same orthographical scar.
The ancient core is a hill the Romans called Mons Taber, where they raised a temple to Augustus Caesar and in the fourth century a.d. built high walls about a mile around to protect their settlement.
This led to civil war and the despotic rule of Octavian, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar whose new title of Augustus Caesar signified the collapse of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 b.c.
The invasion of Attila’s Huns and the Goths and Vandals who came to sack, rape, murder, and pillage Rome brought an end to the Western Empire in 476 with the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus.