Rome and Pompeii, archaeological rambles . ul to those who provided them with such placesof meeting and rendezvous.^ Unfortunately, this modeof pleasing them was not within the reach of all basilica could only be constructed after the purchaseof the shops and houses of private persons, andthese, situated in the finest quarter of the town, hadassumed a great value. Cicero, who busied himself agreat deal with the basilica which Csesar intendedto build, relates that the ground cost 60,000,000sesterces (12,000,000 francs). The owners, he tellsAtticus, were unmanageable. ^ But the favour
Rome and Pompeii, archaeological rambles . ul to those who provided them with such placesof meeting and rendezvous.^ Unfortunately, this modeof pleasing them was not within the reach of all basilica could only be constructed after the purchaseof the shops and houses of private persons, andthese, situated in the finest quarter of the town, hadassumed a great value. Cicero, who busied himself agreat deal with the basilica which Csesar intendedto build, relates that the ground cost 60,000,000sesterces (12,000,000 francs). The owners, he tellsAtticus, were unmanageable. ^ But the favour of thepeople brought so much with it, that it could never bepurchased at too high a price. And this is why theForum was, little by little, embellished with the superbmonuments whose remains have been restored tous by recent excavations. ^Cicero, Ad. Att., IV. 16: Nihil gratiua illo monumento nihilglariosius. Cicero, Ad. AU., IV. 16 : Cum privât is non poterat transigi minorepecunia, (On the basilicas of Rome, see Jordan, Top., II. 216.). fa ç O ^ f ^ 1 -.(^ 1 = P « u
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