Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1887)
Forbes, S. Russell · London ; New York : T.Nelson · leaf 140
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,… … 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…
