THE BASILICA ÆMILIA. In B.C. 180, "Marcus Fulvius made contracts for a court of justice behind the new bankers' shops" (Livy, xl. 51). It was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt by Paullus Æmilius, B.C. 53. Plutarch says that Paullus expended on it the large sum of money he had received from Cæsar as a bribe. Pliny (xxxvi. 24) tells us it was celebrated for its columns of Phrygian marble. _For explanation of the word Basilica, see page 82._ _Between this and the Church of S. Adriano stood_ THE BASILICA PORCIA. In B.C. 185, "Cato purchased for the use of the people the two houses, Mænius and Titius, in the Lautumiæ, and four shops, erecting on that ground a court of justice, which was called the Porcian" (Livy, xxxix. 44). "The tribunes likewise opposed him very much in his building, at the public charge, a hall below the Senate House, by the Forum, which he finished notwithstanding, and called it the Porcian Basilica" (Plutarch, in "Cato"). This is where the tribunes of the people used to hold their courts. It was destroyed by fire at the same time as the Curia. _Behind was_ THE FORUM PISCATORIUM, or Fish-Market. Plautus ("Capteivei," Act iv., Scene 2) says "that the stench of the fish frequently drove the frequenters of the Basilica Porcia into the Forum Romanum." The Market was destroyed by fire B.C. 212 (Livy, xxvi. 27), and rebuilt B.C. 180 (Livy, xl. 51). "Marcus Fulvius contracted for the rebuilding of the Fish-Market." _In this district_ was also THE LAUTUMIÆ. It was not only a district near the Forum, but a prison, as the name signifies, made out of stone quarries. It is first mentioned (B.C. 212) by Livy (xxvi. 27) in his account of the fire. Livy (xxxii. 26; xxxvii. 3) says it was a place for the custody of hostages and prisoners of war. When Q. M. Celer the consul was imprisoned there by the tribune L. Flavius, Celer attempted to assemble the Senate in it (Dion Cassius, xxxvii. 50); so we may infer that it was a large building. The _Lautumiæ_ was _entirely distinct_ from the Mamertine Prison. _The church with the plain front, S. Adriano, and the house with the green shutters, occupy the site of_ THE SENATE HOUSE, originally built by Tullus Hostilius one hundred years after the foundation of Rome, and called the Curia Hostilia. "He built a Senate House, which retained the name Hostilia even within the memory of our fathers" (Livy, i. 30). [Illustration: THE ROMAN FORUM, FROM THE CAPITOL.