Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the temple, and to substitute . hiso\vn. (Plut. Popl. 15; Suet. Caes. 15; Dion Cass,sxxvii. 44 ; Cic. Verr. iv. 31, &c.) Oa this occa-sion Sulla followed the Roman fashion of despoilint^Greece of her works of art, and adorned the templewith columns taken from that of the OlympianZeus at Athens. (Plin. ssxvi. 5.) After its de-struction by the Vitellians, Vespasian restored it assoon as possible, but still on the original plan,the haruspices allowing no alteration except a slightincrease of its height. CTac. Hist. iv. 53; Suet. E05IA. 769 ;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the temple, and to substitute . hiso\vn. (Plut. Popl. 15; Suet. Caes. 15; Dion Cass,sxxvii. 44 ; Cic. Verr. iv. 31, &c.) Oa this occa-sion Sulla followed the Roman fashion of despoilint^Greece of her works of art, and adorned the templewith columns taken from that of the OlympianZeus at Athens. (Plin. ssxvi. 5.) After its de-struction by the Vitellians, Vespasian restored it assoon as possible, but still on the original plan,the haruspices allowing no alteration except a slightincrease of its height. CTac. Hist. iv. 53; Suet. E05IA. 769 ; Dion Cass. kvi. 10, &c.) The new build-ing, however, stood but for a very short period. Itwas again destroyed soon after Vespasians deathin a great fire which particularly desolated the9th Kegion, and was rebuilt by Domitian with asplendour hitherto unequalled. (Suet. Dom. 15;Dion Cass. Ixvi. 24.) Nothing further is accuratelyknown of its history ; but Doniitians structureseems to have lasted till a veiy late period of TEMPLE OF JUPITEK CAPITOLINUS RESTORED. The Area Capitolina, as we have already seen,was frequently used for meetings or contiones; butbesides these, regular comitia were frequently holdenupon it. (Liv. xsv. 3, xsxiv. 53, xliii. 16, ; Plut. Paul. Aem. 30 ; App. B. C. i. 15, &c.)Here stood the Curlv Calabra, in which on theCalends the pontifices declared whether the Noneswould fall on the fifth or the seventh day of themonth. (Varr. vi. § 27, Miill.; Macrob. Sat. ) Here also was a Casa Eomuli, of which therewere two, the other being in the 10th Region on thePalatine; though Becker {Handb. p. 401 and note)denies the existence of the former in i^ice of the ex-press testimony of Slacrobius (I. c.) Seneca (Cow<?ot;.9) ; Vitruvius (ii. 1) ; Martial (viii. 80) ; Conon{Narrat. 48), &c. (v. Preller in Schneidewins Phi-lologiis, i. p. 83). It seems to have been a little hutor cottage, thatched with straw, commemorative ofthe lowly and pasto
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