Roman antiquities: or, an account of the manners and customs of the Romans ... Designed chiefly to illustrate the Latin classics, by explaining words and phrases, from the rites and customs to which they refer / By Aledander Adam.

  • Adam, Alexander, 1741-1809.
Date:
1797
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    In the Capitol were likewife the temples of Terminus, Liv. i. 54. fie p. 288. of Jupiter Feretrius, Id. iv. 20. Nep. Att. 20. &r. Cafu Romu/i, the cottage of Romulus, covered with ftraw, Ltv. v. 53. Senec. Helv. 9. Vitruv. ii. t. near the Curia Calabra, Macrob. Sat. i. 1. Senec. Contr. i. 6. Ovid. Fall. iii. 183. Near the afcent to the Capitol, was the ASYLUM, or fanjftuary, Liv. i. 8. which Romulus opened, feep. 42. in imi- tation ol the Greeks, Serv. in Virg. JEn. viii. 342. ii. 761. Sfdi. Iheb. xii. 498. Liv. xxxv. 51. Cic. Perr. i. 33.' Tacit. Ann. iv. 14. 2. The PANTHEON, built by Agrippa, fon-in-law to Au- gultus, and dedicated to Jupiter Ultor, Pun. xxxvi. 15. or to Mars and Venus, Dio. liii. 27. or, as its name imports, to all the gods, fiep. 320. repaired by Adrian, Spartian. 19. confe- crated by 1 ope Boniface IV. to the Virgin Mary, and All- Samts, A D. 607. now called the Rotunda, from its round hgure, faid to be 150 feet high, and of about tie fame breadth. . ie roof is cunouOy vaulted, void fpaces being left here and iere for the greater ftrength. It has no windows, but only an opening in the top for the admiffion of light, of about or OT inc'mfte? t?* 7“* ,hf inCJe are 'ilher folid cru ted. The front on the outfide was covered with brazen plates gilt, the top with filver-plates, but now it is covered with lead. The gate was of brafs of extraordinary work and fize. They ufed to afeend to it by twelve flops b7t now they g° down as many ; the earth around being fo much railed by the demolition of houfes ° tine'Sr SWf ^ Augurs on the Pala- bnry Lr % “g' 9' t “• 8'- Which was » Public 1,. brary Hor tip . 3. wh„e au.h part.culnrlv POets J C0Tr,ti?D5>u- s°(- '■■=>• 38. Ling®; Perf‘u \S- Sometimes before feleft judges, who R. ldf {entence on their comparative merits. The poets were then faid commit ti, to be contrafled or matched, Suet. Aug 80 JuvenaL vi. 435. as combatants, Suet. Aug. 45. and the re' citers, committee opera. Suet. Cl. 4. Hencf Cahgula faid of c^—, &£££ Aparticuiar piace is faid to have been built for this purpofe thetr w“S,UalL“droy “ “‘n p“plc “ ■*» them recite with acclamations ^'pr rat\9' who commonly received them nil acclamations, Pl,„. tf. ,4. ,hes, BENE, pulchri, belli,