Identifier: dayinancientrome00lohruoft (find matches)
Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) tr
Subjects: Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Chautauqua press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eloquent air breathes—burns with Cicero.—Byron. But that place had long since become too small for the publicmeetings, and Augustus therefore removed the Rostra to the west-ern end of the forum, where the orators had a vast expanse beforethem. The Via Sacra terminates at the Milliariuui Atireum, to becontinued by the only highway leading to the Capitoline Hill—i. e.,the Clivus Capitolinus. This highway was among the first in Rometo be paved, 174 B. c. If we follow this ancient road, we have, to the left, one of themost stupendous ruins, situated at the upper end of the forum. Imean the substructure cf Saturns Temple, with its eight Ioniccolumns still standing. These, as well as the entire decorations,date back to a restoration that was undertaken in the third centuryof the Christian era. The lower part of the temple, as is wellknown, was used for the treasury. Its lofty and firm walls aredoubtless of great antiquity. Tradition ascribes this edifice, and 32 THE TEMPLE OF SATURN.
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TEMPLE OF SATURN. TEMPLE OF VESPASIAN. the introduction of the festivities in honor of the god Saturn(SatiirndHa) to Tullus Hostilius. Others say that TarquiniusSuperbus erected it. It was probably begun under the kings,completed during the republic, and consecrated b)- the first Dictatorof Rome, Titus Lartius, in 501 B. C. Opposite the high stairway, which led to the Temple of Saturn,a small temple was built by Domitian, in honor of Vespasian. Asthere was also placed, in it an image of Titus, the people were THE TEMPLE OF VESPASIAN, 33

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