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 84
ll thrice round the assembly of thepeople, and then offering them to Mars. There is a similar repre-sentation upon a relief of Trajan on the Arch of Constantine, andupon a pedestal found near the Arch of Septimius Severus. To our left of the Arch of Severus is THE ROSTRA AD PALMAM. Neither the… … Bb TUFA kV^tt 7a DCC3/) PLAN Space ivithMediasv3lWalls. ROSTRA ADPALMAM SECTION original Rostra, shown on a coin of Palikanus, the orator mentionedby Cicero ( Brutus, Ixii.)—see page 4G—was a wooden pnlpit. Itsexact site we have already identified. The last historical notice thatwe have of it is in…