Identifier: dictionaryofgree02smit (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical geography
Publisher: London : Walton & Maberly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mple could not be built withoutbeing first inaugurated, so neither could it be pulleddown without being first exaugurated. This is evidentfrom the accounts of the exauguration of the fanes inorder to make room for the temple of the CapitolineJupiter. ( Et, ut libera a caeteris religionibns areaesset tota Jovis templique ejus, quod inaedificaretur,exaugurare fana saccllaque statuit, quae aliquot ibia Tario rege, consecreta inaugurataque postea fue-rant Liv. i. 55, cf. v. 54; Dion. Halic. iii. 69.)When Caesar, therefore, pulled down the curia ofFaustus he first had it exaugurated, by which thesite a<ain became a locus projanus, and would ofcourse require a fresh inauguration when a newtemple was erected upon it. Ihe cun.i in use inthe time of Propcrtius (iv. 1. II) must have beenthe Curia Julia; and the following lines seem to showthat it had risen on the site of the ancient one:— Curia praetexto quae nunc nilet alta SenatuPullitos liabuit, ruslica corda, Pat res.3 £ 3 Pi. Metre s
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THE FORUM KOMANUM UNDER THE EMPIRE, AND THE IMPERIAL FORA. A. TeniplumRivi Trajani B. Basilica Ulpia, C. Forum Trajani. D. Forum August!.K. Forum Jitlium. F. porum Transitorlum. 0. Templum Pacis. II. Basilica Coiistantini. 1. Tdbularium, K. Templum Vespasiani et Titi.Ij. Templum Concordiae.M. Curia or Senatus.N. Basilica Aemilia seu Patilli.P. Templum Antonini et Faiistiiiae.Q. Aedes Divi Jula R. Aedes Vestae.S. Aedes Castoris.T. Basilica Julia.U. Graecostasis.V. Templum Saturni. a. Columna Trajani. b. Equus Trajani. c. Equus Caesaris. li. Career Mamcninus. c. Arcus Severi./. Templum Jani.^. Aedes Penatium.h. Columna Phocae.i. Equus Domitiani.k. Ko-tra Julia./. Fornix Fabii.m. Scliola Xaiitlia.« «. Ciivus Capitolinus. ROJMA. A further confirmation that the new curia stoodon tlie ancient sjxit is found in the fact that down tothe latest period of the Empire that spot continued tobe the site of the senate-house. The last time thatmention is made of the Curia Julia is in the reign ofCa

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