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

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side by a portico, and terminated by the temple
of Mars Bis Ultor*. Under the porticos, on one
side stood in bronze the Latin and Roman kings,
from Eneas down to Tarquinius Superbus ; on the
other were ranged the Roman heroes all in tri-
umphal robes. On the base of each statue was
inscribed the history of the person whom it re-
presented. In the centre rose a colossal statue of
Augustus^.
The Forum Nerva, or T'ransitorium, so called
because it formed a communication between the
three other forums and that of Trajan. There
are still some remains of this forum, as part of
the wall that enclosed it, some Corinthian pillars
belonging to one of its porticos, and the portal of
the temple of Minerva. It was begun by Domi-
tian, but finished by Nerva.

* Ovid. Fast. Lib. v. ver. 552.
t The account given by Suetonius is highly honorable to
Augustus. Proximum a Diis immortalibus honorem memo-
riae ducum praestitit qui imperium populi Romani ex minimo
maximum reddidissent. Itaque statuas omnium tri-
umphal! effigie in utraque Fori sui porticu dedicavit. Profes-
sus est edicto, Commentum id se ut illorum velutad exemplar
et ipse dum viveret, et inseguentium cetatum principes exiger-
entur a civibus.—Oct. Cas. Aug. xxxi.