. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . his long article in the Bullett. archeol. erist., J1879, P- 45 ff«) endeavoured to throw some light on the matter. We have adoptedde Rossis conclusions, which have been widely acknowledged. It is not probable thata wholly satisfactory explanation will ever be reached. Cp. Wattenbach, Neues jArchiv, 5 (1880), 227 fT.; 11 (1886), 202; 12 (1887), 426; and specially the supple-;mentary volume of the Berlin. Akad., 1896, No. 47, p. 1281 fT. (the Acts according jto cod. Paris, lat., 10861). 2 HiERONYMUS, De viris illust., c. 15: u nominis eiu
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . his long article in the Bullett. archeol. erist., J1879, P- 45 ff«) endeavoured to throw some light on the matter. We have adoptedde Rossis conclusions, which have been widely acknowledged. It is not probable thata wholly satisfactory explanation will ever be reached. Cp. Wattenbach, Neues jArchiv, 5 (1880), 227 fT.; 11 (1886), 202; 12 (1887), 426; and specially the supple-;mentary volume of the Berlin. Akad., 1896, No. 47, p. 1281 fT. (the Acts according jto cod. Paris, lat., 10861). 2 HiERONYMUS, De viris illust., c. 15: u nominis eius (Clementis) memoriam usquehodie Romae extructa ecclesia cuslodil. Inscription with dominicum Clementis DE1 No. 152] ST. CLEMENTS 213 The original church (111. 44, A)* which our pilgrims would haveseen in the fifth century, has been only excavated since new church (B) erected by Pope Paschal II. was built aboveit. The same Pope who restored the church of the QuattuorCoronati, subsequently to the destruction of this whole quarter by . B. 7^ . ,:; _ ~™ V- 1. 111. 44.—Basilica of St. Clement at showing the superposed churches belonging to three different periods. Robert Guiscards Normans, also built a new Basilica of This he did by partly filling up and partly demolishingthe older one, which stood somewhat lower down in the Cselian Rossi, Bullett. archeol. crist., 1863, p. 25 ; 1874, P- J59- Dominicutn is the translationof the Greek KvpiaK-q (scil. oIkos). Damasus, see de Rossi, , 1870, p. 148. SiRiCiUS,ibid., 1870, p. 147. Zosimus in Jaffe 2, No. 329 (P. L., XX., 649). Liber pout., 1,123: Clemens romanus, de regione Coeliomonte. 1 Dehio and Bezold, Gesch. der kirchl. Bankunst, PI. 22, No. 2. The lowerchurch is now entered at D. Its altar has been restored, but the mediaeval paintingsare intact. See the upper church with its ambo and paschal candlestick in 111. 45. 2i4 ROME AND THE POPES [No. 152 valley, setting up another in its place.
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