. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. oaca Maxima. the south bank of the Tiber, whence the name that Romeacquired of the City of the Seven Hills. A large tract of marshy ground between the Palatineand Capitoline hills was drained by means of the CloacaMaxima, the Great Sewer, which was so admirably con-structed that it has been preserved to the present still discharges its waters through a great arch into The land thus reclaimed became the Forum, the 7 There is no doubt that the work is simply wonderful. An immensesewer, built twenty-five cen
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. oaca Maxima. the south bank of the Tiber, whence the name that Romeacquired of the City of the Seven Hills. A large tract of marshy ground between the Palatineand Capitoline hills was drained by means of the CloacaMaxima, the Great Sewer, which was so admirably con-structed that it has been preserved to the present still discharges its waters through a great arch into The land thus reclaimed became the Forum, the 7 There is no doubt that the work is simply wonderful. An immensesewer, built twenty-five centuries ago, on unstable ground under enor- ROME UNDER THE KINGS. 49 assembling-place of the people. At one angle of this publicsquare, as we should term it, was the Contitiwn, a largeplatform, where the assemblies of the patricians were upon this platform, so placed that the speakercould command with his voice both the plebeians in theforum and the patricians in the comitium, was the Rostra*or desk, from which the Roman orators delivered View of the Capitoline. (A Reconstruction.) This assembling-place in later times was enlarged anddecorated with various monuments and surrounded withsplendid buildings and porticoes. It was the centre of mous practical difficulties, which still answers well its purpose, is a workto be classed among the great triumphs of engineering. — Lan£:iani,Ancient Rome in the Light of Rece?tt Discoveries, p. 54. 8 So called because decorated with the beaks (rostra) of war-galleystaken from enemies (see par. 77). 5o ROME AS A KINGDOM. the political, the religious, and the business life of more was said, resolved upon, and done, than uponany other spot in the ancient world. The Senate-house occupied one side of the forum ; andfacing this on the opposite side were the Temple of Vesta
Size: 1906px × 1310px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidromeitsrisefallt00myer
