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THE POLO FAMILY J3
beyond what the present state of those regions would suggest,
is attested by vast and magnificent remains of Architecture,
nearly all dating, so far as dates can be ascertained, from
the 12th to the 14th centuries (that epoch during which an
architectural afflatus seems to have descended on the human
race), and which are found at intervals over both the Indo-
Chinese continent and the Islands, as at Pagán in Burma,
at Ayuthia in Siam, at Angkor in Kamboja, at Borobodor
and Brambánan in Java. All these remains are deeply
marked by Hindu influence, and, at the same time, by strong
peculiarities, both generic and individual.
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Autograph of Hayton, King of Armenia, circa A.D. 1243.
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III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS DOWN TO THEIR FINAL RETURN FROM THE EAST.
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13. In days when History and Genealogy were allowed to
draw largely on the imagination for the origines of states and
families, it was set down by one Venetian Antiquary
Alleged
that among the companions of King Venetus, or of origin of
the Polos.
Prince Antenor of Troy, when they settled on the
northern shores of the Adriatic, there was one Lucius POLUS,
who became the progenitor of our Traveller's Family ;* whilst
another deduces it from PAOLO the first Doge t (Paulus Lucas
Anafestus of Heraclea, A.D. 696).
1150!
* Zurla, I. 42, quoting a MS. entitled Petrus Ciera S. R. E. Card. de Orzzgine Venetorum et de Civitate Venetiarunt. Cicogna says he could not find this MS. as it had been carried to England ; and then breaks into a diatribe against foreigners who purchase and carry away such treasures, " not to make a serious study of them, but for mere vain-glory . . . . or in order to write books contradicting the very MSS. that they have bought, and with that dishonesty and untruth which are so notorious ! " (IV. 227.)
t Campidoglio Veneto of Cappellari (MS. in St. Mark's Lib. ), quoting "the Venetian Annals of Giulio Faroldi."
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