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Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . va caused Vetronius Turinus, whohad trafficked with his court-interest, to be suffocated with smoke,a herald proclaiming at the time, Fumo punitur qui vendiditfumum. All these Fora resembled, taken together, a spacious, continuous,and amazing open-air museum, abounding in statues of bronzeand marble (masterpieces of more ancient Greece), and with templesand porticoes, whose fluted peutelic columns during the frequentfestivals used to be enwreathed and festooned with fresh laurelsand roses, and congregated by noisy dark-haired folk wearin
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . va caused Vetronius Turinus, whohad trafficked with his court-interest, to be suffocated with smoke,a herald proclaiming at the time, Fumo punitur qui vendiditfumum. All these Fora resembled, taken together, a spacious, continuous,and amazing open-air museum, abounding in statues of bronzeand marble (masterpieces of more ancient Greece), and with templesand porticoes, whose fluted peutelic columns during the frequentfestivals used to be enwreathed and festooned with fresh laurelsand roses, and congregated by noisy dark-haired folk wearing whitegarments as well as by more distinguished, with richer costumes. Returning a short distance down the Via Alessandrina, and turn-ing (left) down the Via Bonella, we traverse the site of the Forumof Julius Caesar, upon which 100,000,000 sestertii (£900,000 ?) wereexpended. It was ornamented with a Temple of Venus Gcnetrix—whom the Julian clan claimed as ancestress—which containeda statue of the goddess by Arkesilaos, a group of Ajax and Medea. ieniple of Mars Ultor -^i^- Hare FORUM OF AUGUSTUS
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