. The life of the Greeks and Romans. THE BASILICAS. 411 contains twenty columns arranged in five rows of four columnseach; they were covered with roofs, and thus formed convenientplaces of meeting for the merchants whose disputes were decidedin the interior of the building. We also possess several specimens of basilicas with threenaves ; one of them has been discovered near the modern Otricoli,in 1775. It has been recognised as the basilica of the old Romannmmmpium of Ocriculum, one of the larger towns of Umbria,situated on the Yia Flaminia (Fig. 425). The shape of thebasilica considerably dif
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. THE BASILICAS. 411 contains twenty columns arranged in five rows of four columnseach; they were covered with roofs, and thus formed convenientplaces of meeting for the merchants whose disputes were decidedin the interior of the building. We also possess several specimens of basilicas with threenaves ; one of them has been discovered near the modern Otricoli,in 1775. It has been recognised as the basilica of the old Romannmmmpium of Ocriculum, one of the larger towns of Umbria,situated on the Yia Flaminia (Fig. 425). The shape of thebasilica considerably differs from Vitruviuss rule, forming an allbut perfect square. It is divided by two rows of columns (threein number) into three naves, the centre one of which is the this has been added a semicircular tribunal, up to which lead. Fig. 426. steps. On the floor of the first a second dais seems to have beenraised. On both sides of the hemicyclium lie two small quad-rangular chambers, accessible also from the two side naves, besidesbeing connected with the niche of the tribunal. A narrowpassage (cryptoporticus) surrounds the space on three sides. Ofother basilicas with three naves, we mention the church of Albaon the Fucine Lake, and a basilica at Treves (233 by 88 feet) ; asalso the so-called Temple of Peace in Rome, lying between theColiseum and the temple of Yenus and Roma. It was begun byMaxentius, and finished by Constantine ; its ruins are amongst themost splendid of Rome. Four enormous piers divided the innerspace into a wide centre and two narrower side naves, the formerbeing covered with an intersected vault, the two latter with barrel- 412 BASILICA OF POMPEII. vaults. Two apses were reserved for the seats of the judges. Theform of the principal hall in the thermae of Caracalla (Fig. 423)is exactly like t
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