Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . that theearly Church developed its basilicas — with their nave,aisles, and clerestory, and with their railed apse at theend, where was placed the chair of the bishop on itsdais. Across the Forum on the opposite side, toyour right, lies another structure of the same kind,in artistic respects more excellent. In this, theBasilica Aemilia, the chief business was that of thebankers and money-changers, although it servedvarious other purposes according to convenience. If you could see round the farther end of thisbasilica to the right, you would perceive
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . that theearly Church developed its basilicas — with their nave,aisles, and clerestory, and with their railed apse at theend, where was placed the chair of the bishop on itsdais. Across the Forum on the opposite side, toyour right, lies another structure of the same kind,in artistic respects more excellent. In this, theBasilica Aemilia, the chief business was that of thebankers and money-changers, although it servedvarious other purposes according to convenience. If you could see round the farther end of thisbasilica to the right, you would perceive the begin-ning of one of the busiest streets in Rome — theArgiletum — chiefly known to fame as a favourite ROME: THE IMPERIAL CITY 109 quarter of the booksellers, who fasten on their door-posts, or on the pillars which support a balconj^ orupper floor, the lists of the newest or most popularpublications to be bought within. And where thatstreet enters the Forum, though standing back alittle from your line of vision — perhaps you can. Fig. 19, — of Forum, 64. (Complomcntary to frontispiece.) From left: in background. Record Office, with Temple of Concord and Rostra below ; onsummit. Temple of Juno and Citadel ; below, Prison, with shrine of Janus in right: Basilica Aemilia, with gable of Senate-House beyond. (Largely afterTognetti. catch sight of the top of it over the corner of theBasilica — is the temple-like with itsoffices. Here is the meeting-place of the six hundredwho nominally govern jointly with the emperor. Ifyou visit Rome to-day you will find the greater partof the actual chamber, though despoiled,bearing the name of the church of S. Adriano. 110 LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD chap. The little building, half arch, half shrine, whichyou observe standing free where the roads convergeupon the Forum, is the famous sanctuary of Janus,of which the doors are never shut unless there iscomplete peace throughout the Roman world.
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