Rambles in Rome; an archaeological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1911)
Forbes, S. Russell · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 257
collecting in thisneighbourhood. They stand upon a substruction only excavated afew years ago, and present 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… … TRAJANS FORUM. UNDER THE EASTERN HILLS. 227 The Temple of Mars was built in fulfilment of a vow made dur-ing the war of Philippi, undertaken by him to avenge his (adopted)fathers murder. He ordained that the senate should always as-semble there when they met to deliberate respecting wars…
