This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... upon which a shower of blood was believed to have fallen.2 Pliny says that Romulus founded the Vulcanal in memory of one of his victories;3 and Dionysius and Plutarch speak of a bronze quadriga said to have been dedicated by Romulus in the Sacrum of Vulcan out of the spoils of Camerium.4 It is one of Plutarch's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... upon which a shower of blood was believed to have fallen.2 Pliny says that Romulus founded the Vulcanal in memory of one of his victories;3 and Dionysius and Plutarch speak of a bronze quadriga said to have been dedicated by Romulus in the Sacrum of Vulcan out of the spoils of Camerium.4 It is one of Plutarch's questions on Roman Anti " Vicum Tugarium, Graecostadium, basilicam Iuliam. Curiosum in Regione vm. See Appendix. M See p. 183. i Plutarch, Quaest. Rom. 47. (Note 455.) Dionys. ii. 50, vi. 67. (Note 456.) 5 Quod sanguine per biduum pluisset in area Vulcani. Liv. xxxix. 46. In area Vulcani et Concordiae sanguinein pluit. Liv. xl. 19. In area Vulcani per biduum, in area Concordiae totidem diebus, sanguinem pluit. Iul. Obs. p. 61 (ed. Paris, 1533). Plin. N. H. xvi. 86. (Note 463.) 3 Plin. N. H. xvi. 86. (Note 463.) Dionys. ii. 54; Plutarch, Rom. 24. quities why Romulus founded this sacred place Chap. IV outside his city; and he supposes it to have been--1 a secret meeting-place for the two kings and their senators.455 Dionysius frequently speaks of the Vulcanal ji5" as the usual place of public assembly in the early dionysius x r J J identical age of Roman History. This appears to identify pth.. it with the Comitium; and, as this historian makes no distinct mention of the Comitium by its ordinary name, his Hephaesteum can hardly be taken otherwise than as another name for that locality.6 In other authors the Vulcanal is clearly a distinct area. It contained an altar, at which a singular sacrifice was performed, the small fish caught in 455 Aid ri rb rov 'Hipaiarov iepbv i oi iroXewc 6 'PwfiiiXoc ISpvaaro;... ipKoSofiriOri Si o vabc H dpxr)c, avviSpiov Kai fiovXevrifpiov dir6ppriT-v aiirij i /-ra Tariov Tov avpfiaaiXevaavroc, oin...
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Good. No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. In Original Maroon Cloth Boards. Binding Robust. Unmarked Save For Ex Libris Label On Inside Front Boards And Faint Name On Front Endpaper. Endpapers A Little Tanned. Page Blocks Very Slightly Foxed. Boards Slightly Bumped At Corner. Gllt Titling On Spine Rather Faint But Quite Legible. Altogether A Sound First Editioncopy.
