Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ns—though the old i^nds liave been expelled fromtheir places to make voi,m for the statues ofmediaeval saints—is still regarded as the bestpreserved monument of antiquity. It was not only in the Imperial City, butthroughout all the larger cities and towns o
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ns—though the old i^nds liave been expelled fromtheir places to make voi,m for the statues ofmediaeval saints—is still regarded as the bestpreserved monument of antiquity. It was not only in the Imperial City, butthroughout all the larger cities and towns ofthe Empire that the grandeur of Roman ar-chitecture was exhiljited. Nor should the the oliserver ascending, by the Via Sacra tothe Capitol, had a view of the noblest monu-ments of the city. On the left, at the footof the Palatine the temple of Vesta; thencame that of Castor and Pollux; then theJulian Basilica; then the temple of Saturn ;then that of Vesj)asian and Concord, andfinally the massive structures which crownedthe Capitoline. It was in thr ; of this magnificentarcliitccliin that the aud)iti()n of the Itomanemperors, fed no longer with the coiniuestof a world which had been already sulidued,found opportunity for its unexpended such coarse and brutal sovereigns asClaudius, Nero, Dom- r 1. splendors of the great works of the architectsof Rome be judged by the single structureswhich they produced, but rather by groups ofmany so placed in juxtaposition as to heightenthe effect of all. The plan of the Romancities was especially favmabli fur the displayof architectural grandmi-. No town was com-plete without a fnruni. This was generally].hiri-d in Minic of the lower areas so that theeditices, which were grouped about it orcrowned the neighboring heights, looked downupon the open space with an aspect peculiarlymajestic. Such was the situation of the greatForum of Rome. It extended through a val-ley, running in a south-easterly direction f
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