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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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istian martyrs, a.d. 1750. In excavating the Basilica of S. Clement, the Rev. Father Mul-looly found (1870) the remains of S. Ignatius, and had them carriedwith great ceremony over the scene on the anniversary of hismartyrdom. At the present day there remains sufficient to indicate the construc-tion of the building, though but a small portion of the immenseouter shell, which originally both adorned and formed an impene-trable girdle round the whole, has been j^reserved. In the interior,a gieat deal of rebuilding has been necessary for its preservation. Vast as the building is, its construction is easily understood; asimple segment of the whole serving to show how all the others suc-ceed one another like the cells of a bee-hive. The upper part was originally of wood only, and was burned, havingbeen set on fire by lightning. The three lower stories only are ofthe time of the Flavian emperors; the upper story was rebuiltand added in the third century, and only finished in the time of the
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98 RAMBLE I. Gordiani, as is shown by the coins representing it. The imperialentrance was from the Esquiline side, between the arches Nos. 38, 39,which is without number. Commodus constructed an undergroundpassage from the arena to the Palatine, which has not yet been dis-covered, his so-called j^assage (o?i the right in entering) being that bywhich the dead bodies were carried from the arena. Dion Cassiussays: Upon the last day of the sports his helmet was taken offand fell through the door where the dead used to be carriedout. The area, basement, or ground-floor, was flooded for the navalfights. Surrounding this were the dens, in front of which was achannel for fresh water for supplying the animals with drink—aspring still supplies it; about ten feet above was the movable stage,sprinkled with sand for the combats, and hence called the ai^ena. Afew feet above the arena was the podium, or seat of the emperor,vestal virgins, &c., protected from the arena by iron bars. Behindthe p

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