. ected by victorious generals in commemorationof their victories. They were built across theprincipal streets of the city, and, according tothe space of their respective localities, consistedeither of a single archway or of a central onefor carriages, with a smaller one on each sidefor foot-passengers. Ancient writers mentiontwenty-one arches in the city of Rome. Of thesethe most important were : 1. Arcus Fabianus,also called Fornix Fabiamus, near the beginningof the Via Sacra, built by Fabius Maximus 121, in commemoration of
. ected by victorious generals in commemorationof their victories. They were built across theprincipal streets of the city, and, according tothe space of their respective localities, consistedeither of a single archway or of a central onefor carriages, with a smaller one on each sidefor foot-passengers. Ancient writers mentiontwenty-one arches in the city of Rome. Of thesethe most important were : 1. Arcus Fabianus,also called Fornix Fabiamus, near the beginningof the Via Sacra, built by Fabius Maximus 121, in commemoration of his victory overthe Allobroges. 2. A. Drusi, erected by thesenate in 9, in honour of Xero ClaudiusDrusus, in Regio I., but the existing arch whichis called the Arch of Drusus, over the ViaAppia, is merely an arch of the aqueduct builtby Caracalla to supply his thermae, and morehighly ornamented because it crossed a is clearly of a much later date than the timeof Drusus. 3. A. Augusti, in the Forum, nearthe house of Julius Caesar. 4. A. Tiberii,. Aich of TltaB. near the temple of Saturn on the Clivus Capito-linus, erected by Tiberius, 16, in honour ofthe victories of Germanicus in Germany. 5. , in the plain E. of the Quirinal, erectedacross the Via Lata 51, to commemoratethe victories of Claudius in Britain. Remainsof it have been dug up at the beginning of thePiazza Sciarra, by the Via di Pietra. 6. , in the middle of the Via Sacra at the footof the Palatine, which still exists. It waserected to the honour of Titus, after his con-quest of Judaea, but was not finished till afterhis death, since in the inscription upon it he iscalled Divus, and he is also represented a-being carried up to heaven upon an eagle. Thebas-reliefs of this arch represent the spoils fromthe Temple of Jerusalem carried in triumphalprocession. Another Arch of Titus once stoodin the Circus Maximus. 7. A. Trajani, in theforum of this emperor, at the point where it isent
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