" ...et vacuum duellis Janum Quirini clausit, et ordinem Rectum, et vaganti fræna licentiæ Injecit." _Horace_, Ode iv. 15. Besides this temple there were three arches, whose sites are unknown, dedicated to Janus in different parts of the Forum. " ...Hæc Janus summus ab imo Perdocet----" _Horace, Ep._ i. 1, 54. The central arch was the resort of brokers and money-lenders.[56] " ...Postquam omnis res mea Janum Ad medium fracta est." _Hor. Sat._ ii. 3, 18. Along this side of the Forum stood the _Tabernæ Argentariæ_, the silversmiths' shops, and beyond them--probably in front of S. Adriano--were the Tabernæ Novæ, where Virginia was stabbed by her father with a butcher's knife, which he had seized from one of the stalls, saying, "This, my child, is the only way to keep thee free," as he plunged it into her heart.[57] Near this also was the statue of Venus Cloacina.[58] The front of the Church of S. Adriano is a fragment of the _Basilica of Æmilius Paulus_, built with part of 1500 talents which Cæsar had sent from Gaul to win him over to his party. This basilica occupied the site of the famous _Curia_ of Tullus Hostilius. "Là se réunit, pour la première fois sous un toit, le conseil des anciens rois que le savant Properce, avec un sentiment vrai des antiquités romaines, nous montre tel qu'il était dans l'origine, se rassemblant au son de la trompe pastorale dans un pré, comme le peuple dans certains petits cantons de la Suisse."--_Ampère, Hist. Rom._ ii. 310. The Curia was capable of containing six hundred senators, their number in the time of the Gracchi. It had no tribune,--each speaker rose in turn and spoke in his place. Here was "the hall of assembly in which the fate of the world was decided." The Curia was destroyed by fire, which it caught from the funeral pyre of Clodius. Around the Curia stood many statues of Romans who had rendered especial service to the state. The Curia Julia occupied the site of the Curia Hostilia in the early part of the reign of Augustus. Close by the old Curia was the _Basilica Porcia_, built by Cato the Censor, which was likewise burnt down at the funeral of Clodius. Near this, the base of the rostral column, _Colonna Duilia_, has been found. Opposite the Basilica Julia, in the depth of the Forum, is the _Column of Phocas_, raised to that emperor by the exarch Smaragdus in 608. This is-- "The nameless column with a buried base," of Byron, but is now neither nameless nor buried, its pedestal having been laid bare by the Duchess of Devonshire in 1813, and bearing an inscription which shows an origin that no one ever anticipated.