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 64
Golden Milestone, set up by Augustus (Dion Cassius, liv. 8), thesite of which is at the angle of the temple on the side of the oldClivus Capitoliniis. Part of the sculptured circular base and thewhite marble column to which the bronze-gilded plates werefixed exists, on which the distance of all the… … 34 RAMBLE I. Saturn, at the Golden Milestone. Tacitus ( H. i. 27) relates thesame ; and Plutarch (in Galba ) agrees with them both, adding, There terminate all the great roads in Italy. See Pliny, iii. 9.Behind the Temple of Saturn^ in the corner, is THE PORTICO OF THE TWELVE DEITIES,the Schola…
