A Grecian named Erostratus being ambitious of a name, and finding he
could not obtain it by any laudable enterprize, resolved to do it by an
act of the highest villainy, and therefore destroyed by fire the famous
temple of Diana at Ephesus, in the year 398, from the foundation of
Rome. A pile of building that for the excellency of it, was reckoned
among the wonders of the universe. His confessing his design in being
the incendiary, was to render his name immortal: The Ephesians, by a law
forbid the citizens from ever naming him, to disappoint him of the glory
he sought after; but were mistaken in their politics, for the record
continued what they endeavoured to abolish.
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