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 264
collecting in thisneighbourhood. They stand upon a substruction only excavated afew years ago, and jjresent one of the finest specimens extant of atemple, all the essential parts of which have been preserved. Thegigantic walls of rectangular blocks of tufa, into which the travertinearch already… … TRAJAN S FORUM. 222 RAMBLE IV. The Temple of Mars was built in fulfilment of a vow made duringthe war of Pliilippi, undertaken by him to avenge liis (adopted)fathers murder. He ordained that the senate should always as-semble there when they met to deliberate respecting wars andtriumphs; that…
