M. AEMILIUS SAURUS, DOMUS
on a cross street between the Sacra via and the
Nova via, perhaps that at the east end of the Atrium Vestae. The
house of Cn. Octavius was removed by Scaurus to provide room for the
enlargement of his own (Cic. de off. i. 138). This was decorated with
four columns of Hymettian marble, brought to Rome by Scaurus in
his aedileship in 58 B.C. for the adornment of a temporary theatre
(Plin.
NH xvii. 5-6;
xxxvi. 6). These were afterwards removed to
the theatre of Marcellus, where they stood in 42 A.D. The house belonged
then to Caecina Largus (as well as that of Crassus, so that they must
have been close together).
