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 75
ches long, 29 feet 4 inches wide at thetop, and 10 feet at the bottom. The remains of the Puteal Altartowards the east end is dodecagon, 10 feet in diameter, within whichis a hole 3 feet square, where the meteorolite fell. The foundationsof the area are tufa and peperino, which was overlaid with… … MARCUS CTTRTIUS LEAPING INTO THE GULF. {Relief in the Villa Borghese.) (Plutarch, Parallels), the Forum opened ; and every effort madeto fill it in was unsuccessful, till the Tiburtine Sibyl told themthat the best that Pome contained must be thrown in (Yarro,L. L. V. 148; Valerius Maximus, v. 6, 2…
