ATRIUM PUBIICUM (in Capitolio)
a public office, perhaps containing
some of the state archives, said by Livy (xxiv. 10) to have been struck
by lightning in 214 B.C. It may possibly be identified with the
τῶν
ἀγορανόμων ταμιεῖον, in which Polybius (iii. 26. 1) says that the treaties
between Rome and Carthage were kept in his time (
Jord. i. 2. 52).