Fabiola by Cardinal Wiseman6/29/2023 Thus the Palatine, after Nero's fire, became almost too small for the imperial residence and its adjoining Circus Maximus. But gradually it became occupied by private dwellings while the hills, in the early empire the aristocratic portion of the city, were seized upon for greater edifices. Pompey had erected in it his theatre soon after, Agrippa raised the Pantheon and its adjoining baths. Before the close of the republican period, this field, once left bare for the athletic and warlike exercises of the people, had begun to be encroached upon by public buildings. It comprised the flat alluvial plain between the seven hills of older Rome and the Tiber. The sun has declined, and is about two hours from his setting the day is cloudless, and its heat has cooled, so that multitudes are issuing from their houses, and making their way towards Caesar's gardens on one side, or Sallust's on the other, to enjoy their evening walk, and learn the news of the day.īut the part of the city to which we wish to conduct our friendly reader is that known by the name of the Campus Martius. It is on an afternoon in September of the year 302, that we invite our reader to accompany us through the streets of Rome.
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