Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy, Including the Papal States, Rome, And the Cities of Etruria, With a Traveling Map
Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy, Including the Papal States, Rome, And the Cities of Etruria, With a Traveling Map
John Murray (Firm)
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The temple is remarkable for its echo. In the crypt - -— were found the celebrated fragments of the Plan of Rome, the Pianta Capi- tolina, which are now preserved in the museum of the Capitol ; they are sup- posed to have been cut in the time of Septimius Severus or Caracalla, and to have served as the pavement of the temple. Temple of Romulus, — The church of V San Teodoro, situated at the southern extremity of the Campo Vaccino, under the Palatine, has been supposed by an- tiquaries to occupy... the site of this temple. Its form is circular, from which circumstance some writers have erroneously described it as a Temple of Vesta. The antiquaries who refer it to Romulus rely chiefly on the alleged fact, that the bronze wolf now in the Capitol was that mentioned by Diony- sius as standing at the Temple of Ro- * mulus. But there is no proof that the wolf was actually found there; and therefore too much value must not be attached to this doubtful statement. A stronger argument is found in the fact, that the Roman matrons carried ^ their children to the Temple of Ro- mulus to be cured, as they now do to the church of S.
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