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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 46 (search)
He first inhabited a small house in the Suburra,The Suburra lay between the Celian and Esquiline hills.
It was one of the most frequented quarters of Rome. but after his advancement to the pontificate, he occupied a palace belonging to the state in the Via Sacra.
Many writers say that he liked his residence to be elegant, and his entertainments sumptuous; and that he entirely took down a villa near the grove of Aricia, Which he had built from the foundation and finished at a vast expense, because it did not exactly suit his taste, although he had at that time but slender means, and was in debt; and that he carried about in his expeditions tesselated and marble slabs for the floor of his tent.
Upon his return to Rome, having introduced his son Drusus into the forum, he immediately removed from Pompey's house, in the Carinae, to the gardens of Maecenas, on the Esquiline,The street called Carinae, at Rome, has been mentioned before; AUGUSTUS, c. v.; and also Maecenas's house on the Esquiline, ib. c. lxx. The gardens were formed on ground without the walls, and before used as a cemetery for malefactors, and the lower classes. Horace says
Nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus, atque
Esquiline, ib. c. lxx. The gardens were formed on ground without the walls, and before used as a cemetery for malefactors, and the lower classes. Horace says
Nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus, atque
Aggere in aprico spatiari. Sat. i. viii. 13.
and resigned himself entirely to
his ease, performing only the common offices of civility in private life, without any preferment in the government.
But Caius and Lucius being both carried off in the space of three years, he was adopted by Augustus, along with their brother Agrippa; being obliged in the first place to adopt Germanicus, his brother's son.
After his adoption, he never more acted as master of a family, nor exercised, in the smallest d
He lived twenty-nine years, and reigned three years, ten months and eight days.
His body was carried privately into the Lamian Gardens,The Lamian was an ancient family, the founders of Formiae. They had gardens on the Esquiline mount. where it was half burnt upon a pile hastily raised, and then had some earth carelessly thrown over it. It was afterwards disinterred by his sisters, on their return from banishment, burnt to ashes, and buried.
Before this was done, it is well-known that the keepers of the gardens were greatly disturbed by apparitions; and that not a night passed without some
terrible alarm or other in the house where he was slain, until it was destroyed by fire.
His wife Caesonia was killed with him, being stabbed by a centurion; and his daughter had her brains knocked out against a wall.
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 25 (search)
In nothing was he more prodigal than in his buildings.
He completed his palace by continuing it from the Palatine to the Esquiline hill, calling the building at first only "The Passage," but after it was burnt down and rebuilt, "The Golden House.The Palace of the Caesars, on the Palatine hill, was enlarged by
Augustus from the dimensions of a private house (see AUGTUSTUS, cc.
xxix., lvii.). Tiberius made some additions to it, and Caligula extended it to the forum (CALIGULA, c. xxxi.). Tacitus gives a similar
account with that of our author of the extent and splendour of the
works of Claudius. Annma xv. c. xlli. Reaching from the Palatine
to the Esquiline hill, it covered all the intermediate space, where the
Colosseum now stands. We shall find that it was still further enlarged
by Domitian, c. xv. of his life in the present work.
Of its dimensions and
furniture, it may be sufficient to say thus much: the porch was so high that there stood in it a colossal statue of himself a hundre