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. 1911 Excerpt: ...restored by Asinius Pollio, who established in it the first library in Rome. In the sixth century the name, atrium Libertatis, was applied by Theodoric to a part of the Curia. It is not entirely certain where this building stood, whether within the space afterward occupied by Trajan's forum, or beyond it in the campus ...
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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. 1911 Excerpt: ...restored by Asinius Pollio, who established in it the first library in Rome. In the sixth century the name, atrium Libertatis, was applied by Theodoric to a part of the Curia. It is not entirely certain where this building stood, whether within the space afterward occupied by Trajan's forum, or beyond it in the campus Martius. The principal street in this region was the Argiletum (p. 17$), a name also given to the district on either side of it, leadifig from the Subura into the Forum between the Curia and the basilica Aemilia, and afterward incorporated into the forum Transitorium of Nerva. The first step toward carrying out tlie general plan was the building of the forum Iulium or Oaesaris, which Caesar began in 54 b.c., and which was finished by Augustus.3 It is said that the cost of the ground alone was a hundred million sesterces1 (about four million dollars), but this has been thought an exaggeration. The old Forum and the new fora were essentially different. The first was an irregular open space which in the course of centuries had been surrounded with buildings of l FBS. ill. 252-253; CIL. vi. 1014. - Hermes, 1888,631-633; BC. 1889.362-363; Mitt. 1889,240-241; Gilbert, III. 162-163; Liv. xliii. 16; xlv. 15; Cic. ad Ait. iv. 16; pro Mil. 59; Fest. 241; Suet. Aug. 29; Galba, 20. "Nic. Damasc. Cuen. '22; Man. Anc. iv. 12. PI. NH. xxxvl. 103; Suet. Cues. 26. various sorts; the latter were regular areas, inclosed by walls and containing temples and halls, symmetrically placed. The forum Iulium1 was a rectangular court, about 115 metres long and 30 wide, surrounded by a colonnade and wall. In the centre of this court stood the temple of Venus Genetrix. The main axis of the forum ran northwest and southeast, in the same direction as that of the Cu...
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