Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the CampagnaBurn, Robert
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Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna
Burn, Robert
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities; Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel
---- Vespasian, 49
---- Vesta, 39
---- Vesta or Hercules, 108
Temples, on Palatine, 28
Theatre of Balbus, 122, 183
---- Marcellus, 112
---- Pompey, 123
Theseus and Amazons, 181
Tiber, Island of, 115;
bridges, 116;
water of, 188
Tiberius, House of, 26, 30
Tivoli, or Tibur, 235;
Villas at, 252
Torre Fiscale, 212
---- Paterno, ruins at, 234
---- Pignatara, 221
Torso Belvedere, 182
Totilas, 152, 236, 247
Transitoria, Domus, 34
Transtiberine Walls, 4
Travertine, quarries, 236
Triclinium, Palatine, 22
Trophies, of Marius, 76, 183
Tufaceous stone, 186
Tunnels, subterranean, 206
Tusculum, 214;
gate and walls, 216;
history of city, 217;
theatre at, 215
U.
Ustica, 256
Ustrina Cæsarum, 144, 146
V.
Vacuna, Chapel of, 256
Varia, 254
Vatican Hill, enclosed, 4
V. D. N., 18
Veii, 260
Veii and Campagna, antiquities from, 182
Velabrum, 103
Velia, 31
Vettius Prætextatus, 49
Vicus Tuscus, 39
Vigna Guidi, 169
Villa Mills, 21
Villas, ancient, 190, 193
Vitiges, 149, 152, 193
Volcanic strata, 186
Vota, 60
W.
Wolf, bronze figure, 17, 180
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Corp. Inscr. Lat. vol. vi. 1, No. 1158.
[2] Cic. de Har. Resp. xv., 33. Vettius, in Cic. ad Att. ii. 24, calls
Cicero “vicinus consulis,” i.e. near the Regia.
[3] See ‘Rome and the Campagna,’ ch. viii. p. 160.
[4] Festus, p. 262, “infimo clivo Victoriæ.”
[5] A descent to the right to the Forum has been observed by a French
architect. See ‘Le Forum Romain,’ par Dutert; Lévy, Paris, 1876, p. 14.
‘Guida del Palatino,’ p. 71. Valerius Maximus, vi. 3, 1. Cic. pro Dom. 38.
102.
[6] Cic. de Div. i. 45; ii. 32. Liv. v. 32.
[7] Corp. Inscr. i. 632. Wordsworth, Frag. of early Latin, p. 167, 410.
[8] Cic. de Orat. ii. 249.
[9] Cic. ad Att. iv. 3, 3. Liv. xxxiii. 26.
[10] Vacca Memorie 3, Urlichs, in Rheinisches Museum, 1846.
[11] See Henzen, in Bull. dell. Inst., 1867. The name of Domus Gelotiana
has been given to this ruin by Visconti. See ‘Rome and the Campagna,’ p.
181.
[12] The marks on the bricks found here bear the names of Clonius and
Ermetes, freedmen of the Gens Domitia, but the walls which stand near the
meta are constructed of materials which show that they are of later date,
and belong to the Restoration of Theodoric, A.D. 500.
[13] Hist. Aug. Severus, 19, 24. See ‘Rome and the Campagna,’ p. 180.
[14] See ‘Rome and the Campagna,’ pp. 174, 200.
[15] Plin. Ep. I. 13.
[16] See ‘The Journal of Philology,’ Cambridge 1869, vol. ii. p. 89.
[17] Stat. Silv., iv. 2, 26.
[18] The name Basilica Jovis, placed here by Rosa, probably refers to a
temple and not to this tribunal.
Plin. Panegyr., 47.
[19] ‘Rome and the Campagna,’ p. 34.
[20] Josephus, Ant. Jud. xix. 1, 15.
[21] Gell, N. A. xx. 1, 2.
[22] Suet. Tib. 5.
[23] Orelli, Inscr. 6057, 6058.
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