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Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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the META SUDANS, the remains of a fountain, erected by Titus, and repaired by Domitianand Gordiaiius, which stood in the centre of a large ciicular basin.Popular tradition narrates that the gladiators used to wash here aftercombat: it is certainly possible, but not very probable, that they wouldcome outside to wash at an ojien fountain. The epithet Meta Sudans,or sweating-goal, is sujijiosed to be taken from the jierpetual issueof foaming water, or liecause it contiibuted to satisfy the thii-st of theaudience at the Colosseum; or /netci, because it was built in the formof a goal, and sudans, because the water trickled out.To the rigJbt is THE ARCH OF CONSTANTINE,dedicated by the senate and people of Rome to commemorate thevictories of the fiist Christian emperor, to do which they took reliefsfrom the Arch of Trajan, and built them into an attic which theyerected upon the top of the Arch of Isis, re-dedicating the conglom-eration as the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. The reliefs which
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94 RAMBLE I. refer to Trajan can be easily distinguished from those of Constantine(which are very bad) owing to their sujoerior style and the subjectsrepresented. The designs commence, on the left side, with the triumphal entranceof Trajan by the Porta Capena, after the first Dacian war; then,secondly, commemorate his services in carrying the Aj^pian Waythrough the Pontine Marshes; thirdly, founding an asylum fororphan children; fourthly, his relations with Parthamasiris, king ofArmenia. On the opposite side, dedication of the aqueduct built byTrajan (seen on the left); secondly, audience with the Dacian kingDecebalus, whose hired assassins are brought before him; thirdly,with a rejn-esentation of the emperor haranguing his soldiers; and,fourthly, the em))eror oflfering the suovetanrilia sacrifice of a boar,ram, and bull. Corresponding with these reliefs, two medallions, representing theprivate life of the emperor in simjole and graceful compositions, areintroduced over each of the si

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