A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . MARCUS ANTONIUS down to the forum itself. In order to fairly judge of the dimensions of the forum, we must imagine the pillar removed, which in the seventh century was erected in honor of the Byzantine Emperor Phocas, for with its extensive foundation it fills up a good part of the western end. The forum, laid with limestone flags, has the form of a trai)czium,the shortest side of which forms the east border. On the northside, the rubbish-heap reaches even yet to a height
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . MARCUS ANTONIUS down to the forum itself. In order to fairly judge of the dimensions of the forum, we must imagine the pillar removed, which in the seventh century was erected in honor of the Byzantine Emperor Phocas, for with its extensive foundation it fills up a good part of the western end. The forum, laid with limestone flags, has the form of a trai)czium,the shortest side of which forms the east border. On the northside, the rubbish-heap reaches even yet to a height of severalmetres. And it is only recently that they have begun to lay barehere the ancient soil. There still repose, in the deep sleep of the cen- 36 EXCAVATIONS IN COLUMN OF PHOCAS. TEMPLE OF SATURN. T. VESPASIAN. turies, the most important public buildings of the Romans ; there,as has already been said, lay the voting-place of the Roman people,the Comitium, together with the City Hall; there stood thespeakers platform of the republic; there was built the first courtof justice, which was shortly followed by a second and grander it will be possible, at no distant day, to follow out moredistinctly the remains of these foundations. The houses which arestill standing over them have been purchased by the Italian Gov-ernment, and look as sombre and neglected as if they had a pre-monition of their speedy destruction From the forum the square blocks of stone, which project fromthe embankment of the modern street, can be examined to betteradvantage. They served as foundations to the speakers platformof the imperial period. This must have been very spacious. The THE IMPERIAL ROSTRA. 37 Rostra consisted of a nearly rectangular platform, 75 feet
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