. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. e construction of this Rostra answers tothat of the original Suggestum, which took the name of Rostra fromhaving fixed on it the six bronze beaks of the Antiates shijDS. Theoriginal Rostra, shown on a coin of Palikanus, the orator mentionedby Cicero (Bmtus, Ixii.)—see page 42—was a wooden pulpit. Itsexact site we have alreadv identified. The last historical notice that THE CENTRE OF ROME. 45 we liave of it is in Spartianuss Life of Didius Julianus (iv
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. e construction of this Rostra answers tothat of the original Suggestum, which took the name of Rostra fromhaving fixed on it the six bronze beaks of the Antiates shijDS. Theoriginal Rostra, shown on a coin of Palikanus, the orator mentionedby Cicero (Bmtus, Ixii.)—see page 42—was a wooden pulpit. Itsexact site we have alreadv identified. The last historical notice that THE CENTRE OF ROME. 45 we liave of it is in Spartianuss Life of Didius Julianus (iv.), After saying that the emperor addressed the Senate, he adds, but the people expressly in the Rostra before the Curia. Under the Empire the Rostra had lost its use, and only servedoccasionally for the emperor to address the people from, or for read-ing out edicts and proclamations. The western end of the Forumsaw many changes after the fire under Commodus, and was rearrangedunder Septimius Severus, who restored the old edifices, retaining thenames of the founders, and erected others (Spartianus, Severus, ANCIENT PAVED ROAD. D Space «ith Mediasval Walls.
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