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The History of Rome, Book II

CHAPTER IX
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The round temple certainly was not, as has been supposed, an imitation of the oldest form of the house; on the contrary, house architecture uniformly starts from the square form.

The later Roman theology associated this round form with the idea of the terrestrial sphere or of the universe surrounding like a sphere the central sun (Fest.v.

-rutundam-, p.

282; Plutarch, Num.

11; Ovid, Fast.vi.


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