Of Rome meanwhile, so considerably as was still left unoccupied by his mansion, was not crafted up, as it had been after its burning by the Gauls, devoid of any regularity or in any manner, but with rows of streets according to measurement, with wide thoroughfares, with a restriction on the height of properties, with open up spaces, and the additional addition of colonnades, as a protection to the frontage of the blocks of tenements.