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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 44 (ed. Alfred C. Schlesinger, Ph.D.), chapter 15 (search)
Claudius has it that the senate returned no answer, but only had read its decree that the Roman people gave the Carians and Lycians their freedomPrevious friction between these peoples and the Rhodians was noted in XLI. vi. 8-12, cf. the note, and XLII. xiv. 8. Polybius XXX. 5. 12 records a decree freeing the Carians and Lycians in the year 168-7 B.C., probably the time when it was actually passed. and that despatches should be immediately sent to both peoples, on hearing which the
chief of the Rhodian embassy, for whose proud language theB.C. 169 senate-house had but a moment before seemed too small, now suffered deflation.
Other historians record the following answer:
At the outset of this war the Roman people were informed by no trifling sources that the Rhodians had entered upon secret plots with King Perseus against the Roman state,Cf. XLII. xxvi. 8 for earlier Roman suspicions, which to a large extent resulted from the Rhodians' non-partisanship, based on a
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CAMPUS AGRIPPAE
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CAMPUS AGRIPPAE
a section of the campus Martius laid
out as a sort of
park by Agrippa, and finished and dedicated by Augustus
in 7 B.C.
(Cass. Dio lv. 8; Not. Reg. VII; Chron. p. 148). It was a
favourite
promenade of the Romans (Gell. xiv. 5. 1) extending from
about the line
of the aqua Virgo on the south at least as far as the present
via S. Claudio
on the north, and from the via Lata towards the slope of
the Quirinal,
although its boundaries on the east are uncertain. The
PORTICUS
VIPSANIA was built on the west side of the campus,
along the via Lata.
The identification of this campus with the a)/llo
pedi/on of Strabo (v. 236)
seems inadmissible (cf. Eranos, 1923, 53, where it is
further identified
with CAMPUS MINOR, the correlative 'maior' being the
campus Martius
proper, alluded to as circus Flaminius-the name later given
to the ninth
Augustan region-by Catullus).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CONCORDIA, AEDES, TEMPLUM
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CONSUS, AEDES
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
DIRIBITORIUM
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DIRIBITORIUM
a building in the campus Martius in which the votes cast
by the people, presumably in the Saepta, were counted by the diribitores,
or election officials. It was begun by Agrippa, but opened and finished
by Augustus in 7 B.C. (Cass. Dio lv. 8). Its roof had the widest span of
any building erected in Rome before 230 A.D., and was supported by
beams of larch one hundred feet long and one and a half feet thick, of
which one that had not been needed was kept in the Saepta as a curiosity
(Cass. Dio, loc. cit.; Plin. NH xvi. 201 ; xxxvi. 102). Caligula placed
benches in the Diribitorium and used it instead of the theatre when the
sun was particularly hot (Cass. Dio lix. 7), and from its roof Claudius
watched a great fire in the Aemiliana (Suet. Claud. 18).
Cassius Dio (lxvi. 24) states that this building was burned in the great
fire of 80 A.D., but also (lv. 8) that in his day (early third century) it was
standing unroofed (a)xanh)s), because, after its wonderful roof of grea
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
MACELLUM LIVIAE
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MACELLUM LIVIAE
* a market on the Esquiline in Region V (Not. Cur.),
built by Augustus and named after his wife, if it is to be identified, as
is probable, withto\ teme/nisma to\ *li/ouion w)nomasme/non, which Tiberius
dedicated at the beginning of 7 B.C. (Cass. Dio lv. 8). A restoration
between 364 and 378 by Valentinian, Valens and Gratian is recorded
(CIL vi. 1178), and either this macellum or the MACELLUM MAGNUM (q.v.)
is marked on a fragment (4) of the Marble Plan (Atti del Congresso
storico 1907, i. 121). In the Chronicle of Benedict of Soracte ad ann. 921
(MGS iii. 715) the aecclesia Sancti Eusebii iuxta macellum parvum
is mentioned (HCh 251). In the Liber Pontificalis the church of S. Maria
Maggiore was described as iuxta macellum Libiae (LP xxxvii. 8; xlvi. 3;
HCh 342), that of S. Vito as in macello (Arm. 81 I; HCh 499), and in the
Ordo Benedicti Lib. Cens. Fabre-Duchesne, ii. 153.
(p. 141 =Jord. ii. 665) is written: intrans sub arcum
(i.e. Gallieni) ubi dicitur macellum
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
PORTICUS LIVIAE
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PORTICUS LIVIAE
begun by Augustus on the site of the house of VEDIUS
POLLIO (q.v.) in 15 B.C., and finished and dedicated to Livia in 7 B.C.
(Cass. Dio liv. 23; lv. 8; In ib. Ivi. 27. 5 Atovla has been emended into )*iouli/a, as the date there given is 12 A.D.(See BASILICA IULIA, BASILICA AEMILIA.)
Suet. Aug. 29; Ov. Fast. vi. 639). It is
represented on three fragments of the Marble Plan (10, 11, 109), and
was situated on the north slope of the Oppius on the south side of the
clivus Suburanus, between this street and the later baths of Trajan.
The porticus was rectangular, about 115 metres long and 75 wide, with
an outer wall and double row of columns within. In each of the long
sides were three niches, the central one square, the others semi-circular.
There was also a semi-circular apse on the south side. The entrance was
on the north, where a flight of steps, 20 metres wide, led down to the
clivus Suburanus. In the centre of the area was something that appears
to have been a fou
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
REGIONES QUATTUORDECIM
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REGIONES QUATTUORDECIM
* the fourteen regions, or wards, into which
Augustus divided the city when he reformed the municipal administration
in 7 B.C. (Suet. Aug. 30; Cass. Dio Iv. 8). Thereafter Rome was often
designated as urbs regionum xiv or urbs sacra regionum xiv (text fig. 4).
These regions were divided into vici, and a new set of magistrates,
magistri vicorum, drawn from the common citizens, was instituted,
originally four from each vicus, but afterwards forty-eight from each
region regardless of the number of vici, and two curatores. These
magistrates had to do mainly with the religious ceremonies of the regions,
while the regular municipal administration was still in the hands of
higher officials. (For the administrative organisation of the regions, see
Marquardt, Staatsverwaltung iii. 203-207; Mommsen, Staatsrecht ii. 1035-
1037; iii. 119-122; BC 1906, 198-208; CIL vi. 975.) The regions were
fourteen in number, twice as many as the traditional hills of Rome, and
were k