Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the frieze of the porticotestifies that it was erected by Agrippa in his thirdconsulate; whilst another below records repairs bythe emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla. From EOMA. a very corrupt passage in Pliny (sxxvi. 24. s. 1),topograpliers have related that the temple was de-dirated to Jupiter Ultor; but this is altogether in-consistent with other accounts of its destination;and it appears from an emendation of Jan, derivedfrom the Codex Bambergensis, that we should readDiribitorii for Jovi Ullori (Becker, Handb. {5). Dion Cassius states th
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . the frieze of the porticotestifies that it was erected by Agrippa in his thirdconsulate; whilst another below records repairs bythe emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla. From EOMA. a very corrupt passage in Pliny (sxxvi. 24. s. 1),topograpliers have related that the temple was de-dirated to Jupiter Ultor; but this is altogether in-consistent with other accounts of its destination;and it appears from an emendation of Jan, derivedfrom the Codex Bambergensis, that we should readDiribitorii for Jovi Ullori (Becker, Handb. {5). Dion Cassius states that it received the name ROMA. of Pantheon because it contained the images of manygods (liii. 27), which, however, seem to have beenthohe of the deities mythically connected with theJulian race, and among them that of Caesar temple is circular, and its magnificent porticowith triple row of columns, though perhaps not quitein harmony with the main building, cannot fail toexcite the admiration of the beholder. It owes its. 1ANTHE()N OF AGKIPPA. excellent state of preservation partly to the solidityof its construction, partly to its having been conse-crated .as a Christian church as early as the reignof Phocas, under the title of 5. Maria ad Martyres,or delki Rotonda. To the lover of the fine arts itis doubly interesting from containing the tomb ofRaphael. Some architects have thought that it wasnot originally intended for a temple, but as part ofthe baths; a notion, however, that is refuted bypassages in ancient writers, where it is styledtemplum (Plin. xxxvi. 5. s. 38; Jlacrob. Sat. ii. 13).The Pantheiin stood in the centre of the CampusMartius, taking that name in its widest sente. TheThermae, of which only a few unim| ortant remainsexist, adjoined it on the S., and must have extendedto near the Hecatostylon. The Diribitorium was alarge building destined, according to Becker (^ 638), to the examination of the voting tabletsused in the comitia, in order
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