. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 47,iv. , &c.) The anxiety and terror of the tyrantare strikingly depicted in the anecdote told bySuetonius (Dom. 14). that he caused the walls of theportico in which he was accustomed to walk to becovered with the stone, or crystallised gypsum, calledphengites, in order that he might be able to seewhat was going on behind his back. It is uncertainwhere the Adonaea, or gardens of Adonis, lay, inwhich Domitian received Apollonius of Tyana, andwhich are marked on a fragment of the Capitolineplan (Bellori, tab. xi.) Of the history of the palacelittle
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 47,iv. , &c.) The anxiety and terror of the tyrantare strikingly depicted in the anecdote told bySuetonius (Dom. 14). that he caused the walls of theportico in which he was accustomed to walk to becovered with the stone, or crystallised gypsum, calledphengites, in order that he might be able to seewhat was going on behind his back. It is uncertainwhere the Adonaea, or gardens of Adonis, lay, inwhich Domitian received Apollonius of Tyana, andwhich are marked on a fragment of the Capitolineplan (Bellori, tab. xi.) Of the history of the palacelittle more is known. Several accounts mention thedomus aurea as having been burnt down in the reignof Trajan (Oros. vii. 12; Hieron. an. 105, p. 447,Rone.), and the palace which succeeded it appearsto have been also destroyed by fire in the reignof Commodus (Dion Cass, lxxii. 24; Herodian, ) At the southern extremity of the Palatine, Septi-mius Severas built the Septizonium, considerableremains of which existed till near the end of the. THE SErTIZONIUM. ROMA. 16th century, when Pope Sixtus V. caused the pillarsto be carried off to the Vatican. Representations ofthe ruins will be found in Du Perac (tav. 13) andGamucci (Antichita diRoma, p. 83, Speculum , t. 45). The name of the building,which, however, is very variously written in theMSS. of different authors, is by some supposed tohave been derived from its form, by others from thecircumstance of seven roads meeting at this . seems nut improbable that a similar place existedbefore the time of Severus, since Suetonius mentionsthat Titus was born near the Septizonium (c. 2);though topographers, but without any adequategrounds, have assigned this to the 3rd Region. Ithas been inferred from the name that the buildinghad seven rows of columns, one above another, butthis notion seems to be without foundation, as theruins never exhibited traces of more than three tomb of Severus must not be confounded
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