Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

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dedicated to the worship of some de

ecration, which, if they afterwards rece

under one roof. The most celebrated

Priscus, in the Sabine war. But he had scarcely laid the foundation before his death. His

The ascent from the ground was by a hundred steps. The prodigious gifts and ornaments with which it was at several times endowed, almost exceed

ved thither from Athens, out of the temple of Jupiter Olympius; the gilded roof, the gilded shields,

burnt about the time of his death. Domitian raised the last and most glorious of all, in which the very gilding amounted to twelve thousand talents-on which Plutarch has obser

and one to Minerva. Jupiter's was in the centre, whence he was poeticall

vaulted, void places being here and there for the greater strength. The rafters were pieces of brass of forty feet in length. There are no windows in the whole edifice, only a round hole at the top of the roof, which serves very well for the admission o

being converted into a Christian church by Pope Boniface III. The most remarkable difference

nificence of the structure, as for the customs that depend upon them, and the r

lians to coin money; but most probably it was because this was the strongest place in the city. Here were preserved all the public registers and r

as to contain a statue of Janus, five feet high, with brazen gates o