. New guide of Rome, Naples and their environs. elix III ; a bronze door brought fromPerugia and two porphyry columns form the entrance;in the ancient church , now under ground is an altarunder which repose SS. Coslmo and Damlano. The two cipollino columns measuring from the baseto the capital 31 feet were a part of the portico whichbelonged to the temple of Remus. The three large arches near these columns are re-mains of the BASILIC OF CONSTANTINE. Anrelius Victor says, that in the year 311 of thechristian era Maxentius raised this edifice which, afterhis defeat, was consecrated by the senate
. New guide of Rome, Naples and their environs. elix III ; a bronze door brought fromPerugia and two porphyry columns form the entrance;in the ancient church , now under ground is an altarunder which repose SS. Coslmo and Damlano. The two cipollino columns measuring from the baseto the capital 31 feet were a part of the portico whichbelonged to the temple of Remus. The three large arches near these columns are re-mains of the BASILIC OF CONSTANTINE. Anrelius Victor says, that in the year 311 of thechristian era Maxentius raised this edifice which, afterhis defeat, was consecrated by the senate to Constantine. The plan of this building is that of a basilic beingdivided into three naves ; the style of the constructionand ornaments is identical with that of the thermae ofDiocletian and other edifices of the IV century j in a frag-ment of the roof which fell In 1 828 , several medals werefound , one in silver of Waxenlius. From the XV till themiddle of the XVU centui y these ruins were supposed tohave been those of the temple of
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