A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 351
ii-s adorned withvarious structures and movable objects intendedpartly for decoration, partly to keep the orderof the races. Statues, trophies of arms, andeven rather important architectimal structureswere buUt upon the spina, and it was terminatedat each end by structures called the metie,each of… … ClKCUS OF M.lXENTirS, NE.\R RoME, ItALT. games. The earliest in the city of Rome wasthat which was called afterward the CircusMa.ximus, which gradually grew up in the lowvalley south of the Palatine Hill. The buildingwas continually altered and added to, and afterJulius C.iesar had relmilt it, in…
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