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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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vus Capitolinus, the portico of the twelve gods (dii cun-sentes) found its place. We already know that this has immortal-ised a name peculiarly obnoxious to Christians, that of VettiusAgorius Praetextatus, its restorer, the friend of Julian the Apos-tate, and patron of the Vestals, who was City Prefect in 367.The aedes Satumi, once the depository for the Treasury, standsbefore it. The eight picturesque pillars of the Atrium owe theirpreservation to having been restored by one of the first ChristianEmperors. Opposite it was the Arch of Tiberius, only recently dis-:covered anew. The five aisles of the Basilica Iulia stretch towardsthe south. No one who has ever visited the excavated Forum could 1 u Sancti Sergii. Ibi umbilicum Romae (Lanciani, L: iiinerarioy p. 494). 2 In close proximity to these monuments, near Sant Adriano, there was in theMiddle Ages a limekiln, in which the then Romans burnt the marble purloined fromthe four Forums. See Lanciani, Storia degli scavi, 1 (1902), p. 25.
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TinOXIdYJ ,3 no.i67) THE ROMAN FORUM 243 forget the melancholy sight of the rows of bases, now replaced in position, which once supported its columns. These reach down to the line under which the Cloaca maxima intersects the Forum. Beside the opening of the great drain, here visible, once stoodI the little temple of Venus Cloacina, or the Venus of the Sewers. On the farther side of the ancient street which ends here, calledI Vicus tuscus, we come at once to the large and artistic aedes Castoris, or Temple of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux. After! the victory at the lake Regillus they appeared here, watered their: horses at the Juturna fountain, and gave the Romans tidings ofi the successful battle. Behind this, at the north angle of the Palatine, rises a square edifice, built of particularly fine bricks, which long remained unidentified. Quite lately Lanciani has; shown it to be the aedes divi Augusti, a temple to the first Emperor to be ranked among the gods.1 At the side of the shr

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