Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . gorio, a Neapolitan architect,and Palladio, both saw a good deal of it standing in 1544 ; and theformer, mistaking it for a Temple of Janus, executed a misleadingsketch to suit his free idea of a restoration. He tells us that itsprecious remains were sold as bullocks are sold to the many destructions, this most sacred edifice re-arose in solidmarble magnificence in the year 36 , and was adorned withstatues which had belonged to Alexander the Great. On the kalendsof each month the priestess, called Regina Sacrorum, here
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . gorio, a Neapolitan architect,and Palladio, both saw a good deal of it standing in 1544 ; and theformer, mistaking it for a Temple of Janus, executed a misleadingsketch to suit his free idea of a restoration. He tells us that itsprecious remains were sold as bullocks are sold to the many destructions, this most sacred edifice re-arose in solidmarble magnificence in the year 36 , and was adorned withstatues which had belonged to Alexander the Great. On the kalendsof each month the priestess, called Regina Sacrorum, here offered aewe lamb or a sow to Juno Lucina. On August 25 the Vestalsperformed some unknown rite here in honour of Ops Gonsiva (wifeof Saturn), at her Penus or sacred Store. Perhaps the most interest-ing of the ceremonies performed here, however, were those relatingto Mars the spear-thrower. Two hastae or spears (the nationalweapon of the early Romans) were kept suspended in his shrine, andwere observed attentively by a priest whose duty it was to record.
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