A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . us Severus built himself, on this side ofthe palace, a spacious lodge, from which he could completely sur-vey the games. To this lodge were joined small chambers, ofwhich a rotunda is particularly noticeable. In the walls are stillseen the niches which were adorned with statues. Into this splen-did hall the emperor may have retreated with his friends duringthe intervals to recover from the excitement of the games. The valley, which once was filled with the cries and applau
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . us Severus built himself, on this side ofthe palace, a spacious lodge, from which he could completely sur-vey the games. To this lodge were joined small chambers, ofwhich a rotunda is particularly noticeable. In the walls are stillseen the niches which were adorned with statues. Into this splen-did hall the emperor may have retreated with his friends duringthe intervals to recover from the excitement of the games. The valley, which once was filled with the cries and applauseof a crowd of anxious spectators, has now become silent. The rows of stone benches have place where once the carcercs con-fined the restless horses is now occupiedby quite a modern building—a gas factory !And on the ancient race-course itself, whereonce rushed along the Roman two-horsechariots {bigac) rope-makers are now withcareful steps twisting their many-strandedropes. Septimius Severus was very fond of building. We are informedby his biographer, Spartianus, that, in addition to his new build-. 72 THE STADIUM. ings, he restored all the public buildings of Rome that had beendamaged. His palace he is said to have located on this side of thePalatine, not only for convenience of residence, but also for thepurpose of showing his countrymen (he was African) who might ap-proach the city by the Via Appia, how powerful a monarch he this impression he strengthened still more by the so-calledScptizoniiwi, an edifice of seven stories, three of which remainedtill the time of Sixtus V. This singular building was finished 203 A. D., after the emperorsreturn with his victorious army from Asia, where he probably con-ceived the idea of such a tower. At any rate, the seven storiesremind us of the well-known ruins in Babylon, whose terraces wereadorned with various colors, and dedicated to seven planets. Nowit has all vanished. I do not, however, purpose to write to
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