The Vicissitudes of the Eternal City

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REGION II. CELIMONTANA. 1. Temple of Claudius.?2. Arch of Dolabella and Silanus.? 3. Quarters of Foreign Soldiers.?4. Quarters of the Albani.? 5. The Great Market.?6. House of Vitellius.?7. Campus Mar- tius.?8. House of Marcus Aurelius.?9. House of Laterani. ?10. Fifth Cohort of the Watch.?11. The little...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REGION II. CELIMONTANA. 1. Temple of Claudius.?2. Arch of Dolabella and Silanus.? 3. Quarters of Foreign Soldiers.?4. Quarters of the Albani.? 5. The Great Market.?6. House of Vitellius.?7. Campus Mar- tius.?8. House of Marcus Aurelius.?9. House of Laterani. ?10. Fifth Cohort of the Watch.?11. The little Celian and Chapel of Diana.?12. Public Baths.?13. House of Philip, ? 14. Campus Fontinalis.?Neronian Arches (not in Map). The circumference of the Celimontana region, so called from the Celian hill on which it was situated, is determined by the form of the hill itself, as its circuit amounts to about the 12 or 13,200 feet assigned to it by the Regionaries. It excludes, however, the other hill, situated towards the Porta Latina, which it is thought formed part of the antecedent region and is considered by various topographers as the little Celian of the ancients; nor can one include in this region the plain lying towards the Esquiline, in which Nardini was of opinion that the ancient suburra had been situated. Temple of Claudius.?The position of this temple of Claudius, which, as related by Suetonius, had been raised by Vespasian on the ruins of the one commenced by Agrippina, and destroyed by Nero, is designated by '' Fecit et nova opera, templum Pacis Foro proxinium: Frontinus, who says, that the Neronian arches of the Acqua Claudia followed from the Speranza Vec- chia the course of the Celian hill, and terminated precisely near this temple. Now, as on the Celian, there are many remains of the arches that sustained this aqueduct; and as it is known that they ended in the upper part of the garden joining the convent of S. Giovanni e Paolo, it is certain that here stood the temple of Claudius. In fact, in this locality there are many remains indicatin...