This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...have formed part of the Temple of Fortune, ) describes the irregularities and barbarisms observable in the remains. (Vol. I. p. 411.) Suetonius says of Domitian, --" Plurima et amplissima opera, incendio " absumpta, restituit; in quis et Capitolium, quod rursus " arserat; sed omnia sub titulo tantum suo, ac sine ulla " pristini auctbris memoria. Novam autem excitavit " aedem in Capitolio Custodi Jovi, et forum, quod nunc " Nervae vocatur: item Flaviee templurn gentis, et sta" dium, et odeum, et naumachiam; e cujus postea " lapide Maximus Circus, deustis utrinque lateribus, " exstructus est." Domit. v. The temple was struck by lightning; one of the omens which Domitian regarded with such superstitious dismay, as portending his death. " Tactum de ccelo " Capitolium, templumque Flaviae gentis; item domus " Palatina, et cubiculum ipsius; atque etiam e basi " statuae triumphalis titulus, excussus vi procell1e, in " monimentum proximum decidit." Suelon. Domit. 15. The Temple of Vespasian did not stand exactly behind the equestrian figure of Domitian, but sufficiently so to justify the expression of Statius "Terga pater videt." The Temple of Saturn was one of the most ancient and venerable buildings of Rome: it was used as the public treasury. Lucan (1n. 114--/53) describes the scene which took place when Julius Caesar rifled this building. Within this temple was also the " aerarium sanctius," or treasury of reserve, which was only to be touched on occasions of great emergency: this was most probably kept in vaults under the Tabularium, with which building the Temple of Saturn was connected by subterranean communication. M. Bunsen thinks that the entrance to these vaults may be traced between the Temples of Saturn and Concord. (Le Forum Romanum, ...