Identifier: ramblesinromearc00forb (find matches)
Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ies one side;the edge of the paved area marks the top; the remains of a row ofshops, destroyed by Signor Rossa in 1872, the bottom. The line ofthe modern road on the right was called THE JANUS.This was the Roman Exchange, where the money-changers trans-acted their business, and must not be confounded with the Templeof Janus already mentioned; nor must it be thought that there werea, series of arches here, as some authors have supposed. Horace says 3 34 RAMBLE I. (Sat. ii. 3), Since all my fortunes were dissipated at the middleexchange (Janus). Again (Ep. i. 1), 0 citizens, money is to besought first; virtue after riches. This is inculcated from the top tothe bottom of change. He here distinguishes the summus, Tnedius,and imus, or the top, middle, and bottom of the exchange. SHRINE OF VENUS. Having thus pointed out the principal buildings of the Forum, wewill descend to its level, and identify some of its historical sites.At the left-hand corner of the Vicus Tuscus and the Via Sacra, a
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DEATH OF VIRGINIA. brick pedestal marks the site of the Shrine of Venus Cloacina, erectedin commemoration of Tarquin making the Cloaca Maxima. Cloacinacomes from cluere = purgarey to purge. THE DEATH OF VIRGINIA. Opposite this shrine, facing up the Vicus Tuscus, is some brick-work—remains of a line of shops that faced towards the Temple ofCaesar, and which were destroyed by Signor Rossa in making the THE CENTRE OP ROME. 35 excavations. The end shop only was saved. This was the site of the butchers stall from which Virginius snatched the knife that saved his daughters honour. Virginius demanded to speak with Virginia; and permission being granted, he drew the maiden and her nurse aside to the shops near the shrine of Cloacina, now called the new shops, and there, snatching a knife from a butchers stall, plunged it into his daughters breast (Livy, iii. 48). ^ THE FOUNTAIN OF JUTURNA. At the left-hand corner, facing the Temple of Castor, the oval basinof this fountain has been cleared,

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