[Pinnock’s Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome by Oliver Goldsmith]@TWC D-Link bookPinnock’s Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome CHAPTER III 21/22
Pala'tium 11.
Circus Max'imus 12.
Pici'na Pub'lica 13.
Aventinus 14.
Transtiberi'na. The divisions made by Servius were named: the Suburan, which comprised chiefly the Coelian mount; the Colline, which included the Viminal and Quirinal hills; the Esquiline and Palatine, which evidently coincided with the hills of the same name. [10] Among the public buildings of ancient Rome, when in her zenith, are numbered 420 temples, five regular theatres, two amphitheatres, and seven circusses of vast extent; sixteen public baths, fourteen aqueducts, from which a prodigious number of fountains were constantly supplied; innumerable palaces and public halls, stately columns, splendid porticos, and lofty obelisks. [11] From _caput_, "a head." [12] State criminals were punished by being precipitated from the Tarpeian rock; the soil has been since so much raised by the accumulation of ruins, that a fall from it is no longer dangerous. [13] In the reign of Numa, the Quirinal hill was deemed the citadel of Rome; an additional confirmation of Niebuhr's theory, that Quirium was a Sabine town, which, being early absorbed in Rome, was mistaken by subsequent, writers for Cu'res. [14] Basilicks were spacious halls for the administration of justice. [15] It is called _Templum_ by Livy; but the word templum with the Romans does not mean an edifice, but a consecrated inclosure.
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