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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Assisi, The Capitolium or Temple of Minerva
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Todi, Enclosure of Ancient Forum Plate XXXII the ne\a/ YOKK 1 PUBLIC i;:rary ASTOP, LENOX AND TiLDZN foulxCaptions ROMAN CITIES 173 sages in literature and for material evidence ofthe fact. Even Dr. Hiilsen seemed not to havetaken this question into account in his forumstudies. JNIy explanation of the hitherto unex-plained thin Janus archways (iani pervii) thatspanned the vicus Tuscus and vicus Jugarius asthey open into the forum is that they were in-tended to frame and support gates by which theforum could be closed. The other approaches:the Clivus Argentarius, the Argiletum and theVia Sacra, were also all spanned by archwayswhich could have served and probably did servethe same purpose. In Republican times, when games and showswere so often given in the forum instead of inspecial structures like circus and amphitheater,it must have been quite necessary to close theforum, but the real origin of the custom was, Ibelieve, different. I found confirmation of my theory in theforum of Pomp

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