Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Vol. 3): 3. ed., rev. and enl (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

IS6 CLASSICAL TOUR Ch. V
The Forum Romanum was in rank the first;
its name was coeval with the city, and its desti-
nation was connected with all the glories of the
Republic. It was indeed the seat, or rather the
throne of Roman power. It was encircled with
buildings of the greatest magnificence; but
these buildings were erected at different periods,
and pe: haps with little regard to regularity. They
circumscribed its extent within very narrow
limits, but these limits were consecrated by omens
and auguries, and ennobled by fame and pa-
triotism ; they were too sacred to be removed.
It was therefore found inadequate to the recep-
tion of the crowds which flocked to the public
assemblies, and Julius Caesar took upon himself
the popular charge of accommodatingthe Roman
people with another forum, without however vio-
lating the dignity and pre-eminence of the first,
which always retained exclusively the title of
Great, and the appellation of Roman.
ISionieu terris fatale regendis. Prop.
Of this new forum, called the Julian, we only
know, that the ground on which it stood cost nine
hundred thousand pounds, and that its principal
ornament was a temple of Venus Genitrix.

The forum of Augustus was lined on each