. Rome and Pompeii; archaeological rambles. e who provided them with such placesof meeting and rendezvous.^ Unfortunately, this modeof pleasing them was not within the reach of all basilica could only be constructed after the purchaseof the shops and houses of private persons, andthese, situated in the finest quarter of the town, hadassumed a great value. Cicero, who busied himself agreat deal with the basilica which C;esar intendedto build, relates that the ground cost oO,000,000sesterces (12,000,000 francs). The owners, he tellsAtticus, were unmanageable. - But the favour of thepe
. Rome and Pompeii; archaeological rambles. e who provided them with such placesof meeting and rendezvous.^ Unfortunately, this modeof pleasing them was not within the reach of all basilica could only be constructed after the purchaseof the shops and houses of private persons, andthese, situated in the finest quarter of the town, hadassumed a great value. Cicero, who busied himself agreat deal with the basilica which C;esar intendedto build, relates that the ground cost oO,000,000sesterces (12,000,000 francs). The owners, he tellsAtticus, were unmanageable. - But the favour of thepeople brought so nnich with it, that it could never bepurchased at too high a price. And this is why theForum was, little by little, embellished with the superbmonuments w^hose remains have been restored tous by recent excavations. ^Cicero, Ad. Alt., IV. 16: Xihil gratius iUo monnmcnto nihilglariosius. ??^Cicero, Ad. Ait., IV. 16: Cumprivatisnon 2>otcrat transigi miuoropecxuua. (On tlio basilicas of Rome, seo Jordiiu, Top., II. 216.). V
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