. The life of the Greeks and Romans. s of exceptionsare, for instance, the basilicas withone instead of three naves; otherbasilicas occurring at an earlyperiod had as many as fivenaves. Of such with one nave, andtherefore without porticus, wemention the remains of a basilica atAquino (the old Aquinum inLatium), where the walls of the•H I l M M I I 1 tribunal built of freestone are Flg425, still recognisable; also that at Palestrina (the old Praeneste), where the hemicyclicaltribunal, with a chalcidicum, has been preserved. The designof the three tribunals in the forum of Pompeii is, in a moreo
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. s of exceptionsare, for instance, the basilicas withone instead of three naves; otherbasilicas occurring at an earlyperiod had as many as fivenaves. Of such with one nave, andtherefore without porticus, wemention the remains of a basilica atAquino (the old Aquinum inLatium), where the walls of the•H I l M M I I 1 tribunal built of freestone are Flg425, still recognisable; also that at Palestrina (the old Praeneste), where the hemicyclicaltribunal, with a chalcidicum, has been preserved. The designof the three tribunals in the forum of Pompeii is, in a moreor less modified way, repeated in most of these buildings; thisis, for instance, the case in a basilica at Palmyra, consisting ofan oblong hall, to one of the narrow sides of which a perfectlysemicircular niche has been added, while the opposite side showsan entrance-portico of four columns. To the other sides of thebuilding wings have been added, which, however, are enclosedby detached columns instead of walls. Each of these wings. THE BASILICAS. 411 contains twenty columns arranged in five rows of four columnseach; they were covered with roofs, and thus formed convenientplaces of meeting for the merchants whose disputes were decidedin the interior of the building. We also possess several specimens of basilicas with threenaves ; one of them has been discovered near the modern Otricoli,in 1775. It has been recognised as the basilica of the old Romannmmmpium of Ocriculum, one of the larger towns of Umbria,situated on the Yia Flaminia (Fig. 425). The shape of thebasilica considerably differs from Vitruviuss rule, forming an allbut perfect square. It is divided by two rows of columns (threein number) into three naves, the centre one of which is the this has been added a semicircular tribunal, up to which lead
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