Wanderings in the Roman campagna . ge, and a high one, bymeans of which popular sanctuaries, especially thoseof Lanuvium, Nemi, Tijjur, and Prseneste, secured analmost fabulous revenue. When Octavius foimd him-self in financial straits at the time of the Civil War, heborrowed money from the temples, from the Capitolineat Rome, from those of Antium, of Lanuvium, of Nemus,and of Tibur, in which cities there are to-day the mostabundant stores of consecrated money. But we neednot cjuote historical evidence when we have before oureyes the evidence of facts. Appianus, Ciinl Wars, trans, by Professor
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . ge, and a high one, bymeans of which popular sanctuaries, especially thoseof Lanuvium, Nemi, Tijjur, and Prseneste, secured analmost fabulous revenue. When Octavius foimd him-self in financial straits at the time of the Civil War, heborrowed money from the temples, from the Capitolineat Rome, from those of Antium, of Lanuvium, of Nemus,and of Tibur, in which cities there are to-day the mostabundant stores of consecrated money. But we neednot cjuote historical evidence when we have before oureyes the evidence of facts. Appianus, Ciinl Wars, trans, by Professor Horace White, v, 24. 232 WANDERINGS IN THE RO^L\N CAMPAGNA Palestrina is an episcopal city of seven thousandinhabitants, built almost entirely within the precinctsof the temple. Every house, church, convent, or villarests on anticpie foundations. They rose in steps andterraces up the slope of the mountain to a great height,the difference of level between the lower gate and thepinnacle of the upper rotunda being five hundred Front of the lower terrace of the Sanctuary, twelve liundred feet lon^ The lower terrace had a frontage of twelve hundredfeet, and the whole establishment covered an area ofabout eighty acres. Such figures of length, breadth,and surface do not mean much liy themselves; but if wecover that space with structures of stone and marbleexquisitely cut and carved; with colonnades of the cost-liest breccia, crowned with capitals of gilt metal; withhundreds of statues chiselled or cast by Greek artists;if we consider that the only mosaic floor yet exhumed
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