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A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome
A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome Author:Edward Burton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3ESQUILINE AND VIMINAL HILLS. 155 year 610, the account is not kept so accurate as before: only one tribune of the people is named out of the ten, and several other magistrates are omitt... more »ed. They were found in 1545, in the Forum, not far from the Church of S. Maria Libera- trice.p They are in several fragments, and sadly mutilated; but the inscriptions are very legible. Another portion was found in 1819, which supplies some names which were not before known. In the fire, which consumed the Capitol in the time of Vitellius, all the records preserved there were burnt. Vespasian, who rebuilt the temple, had the loss repaired by copies from the most authentic documents; and it is not improbable that these fragments are of that date.q ESQUILINE AND VIMINAL HILLS. The Esquiline and Viminal hills contain scarcely any ruins, except the Baths of Titus on the former, and the Baths of Diocletian on the latter. They will both be mentioned when we come to the subject of the Baths. The Viminal hill is small, and mostly occupied by gardens: it is indeed rather difficult to ascertain its limits; the Baths of Diocletian stand partly upon the P They have been published by Sigonius and by Panvi- nius. q A complete list of all the Magistrates, from the foundation of Rome to the death of the Emperor Verus, was published by Chryserus, who was a freedman of that Emperor. Theophil. ad Autol. 3, 27. Section 4Quirinal hill, as the two eminences come to a junction in this place. In walking from the Tri- nita de' Monti to S. Maria Maggiore, and thence to S. John Lateran, the ascent of all the four hills, the Quirinal, the Viminal, the Esquiline, and the Ceelian, is evident. QUIRINAL HILL. The Quirinal Hill is now known by the name of Monte Cavallo, from the two horses on the top of it. These were found in the Bat...« less