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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The central hill, forming the district, was surrounded by theVicus tuscus, the Nova Via, the Sacra Via as far as the Coliseum,then the Via triumphalis and the Circus Maximus, Thanks toits gorgeous palaces of the Emperors, this district had becomethe centre of attraction in Rome. This Imperial residence, occu-pied until the third century by an uninterrupted line of Emperors,comprised quite a series of individual palaces and mansions, for 1 Drawn by the painter Tabanelli after Isabelle, Edifices circulaires, and Lanciani,Forma urbis Romae. The open space surrounding the edifice was paved with greatflags, of which portions have repeatedly come to light in the excavations. It stretchedfrom the front of the Pantheon toward the present church of Sta. Maddalena. ThePorticus to the right fronts the Baths of Alexander ; the position of the correspondinggalleries to the left and at the back is a matter of conjecture. Probably the draughts-man has exaggerated the extent of the open space behind.
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no. i22) ROMAN REGIONS 173 instance, the Domus Augusti, D077ms Tibe7ii, Do77ius Caligulae,and the Domus Flaviorum. The lofty ruins of the Flavian build-ing, with its vast halls, is still one of the most imposing monu-ments on the Palatine Hill. The great palace of SeptimiusSeverus, between the circus valley and the Appian Way, madeanother. Mention must also be made of the Stadium, perhapsmore accurately called the Gardens of Augustus, which has onlyrecently been excavated in its entirety ; of the Adonis Gardens,the Septizonium of Severus, the Paedagogium, and a number oftemples great and small. Both Odovacar and the Gothic KingTheodoric took up their residence upon this regal hill. The eleventh region, the Circus Maximus, is also definedand circumscribed by its name ; for, apart from the circus, it com-prised only a small portion of the city lying to the north-west.The exact boundaries are : the Tiber, from the Servian Po7tatrigemina (a little to the north, below Sta. Sabina) as far a

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