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GREEK INSCRIPTIONS.
[Chap. xxiv.
sidering it, there appeared five more columns of the Greek
inscription almost perfect, and supplying many of the lacunas
in the Latin, the latter part of which is very defective :*
unfortunately, these six columns did not contain more than
a third of the whole; the remainder was still concealed
behind two other houses which were inhabited; and when,
after some delay in removing the female part of the
family, I was admitted, I found that the inscription
was not protected by a mud wall as in the former case,
but that the bare wall of the temple was exposed in the
interior of the house, so that the inscription has been in
many places entirely obliterated.
Among the interesting facts revealed by this discovery
of the Greek translation is the almost perfect catalogue of
the new buildings erected by Augustus, which in the
Latin version is extremely faulty. These new buildings
were "the temples of Mars, of Jupiter Tonans and Tri-
umphans, of Apollo, of Julius Quirinus, of Minerva, of
Juno, of Jupiter Eleutherius, of the heroes of the country,
of Juventus, of the Mother of the Gods; the Chalcidicum,
the Forum Augustum, the Theatre of Marcellus, the Ba-
silica Julia, the grove of the Ca:sars, the portico on the
Palatine, the portico in the Hippodrome of Flaminius." He
also restored the Capitol, eighty-two temples, the Via
Flaminia, the aqueducts, and other buildings for public
spectacles, besides presenting gifts to the colonial and
Italian cities, which had been destroyed by earthquakes
and by fires.
There is another interesting inscription in Greek on the
front of one of the Anta?, from which it appears that the
temple was dedicated to Augustus and Rome.f The cir-
cumstance of its having been thus dedicated renders it
highly probable that it is the temple alluded to in the
decree of Augustus, quoted by Josephus,J although Chis-
hull wishes to read igyb^ instead of dyxvpri, and supposes
* See Appendix, No. 102. t See Appendix, No. 103.
1 Joseph. Antiq., lib. xvi. 6.
GREEK INSCRIPTIONS.
[Chap. xxiv.
sidering it, there appeared five more columns of the Greek
inscription almost perfect, and supplying many of the lacunas
in the Latin, the latter part of which is very defective :*
unfortunately, these six columns did not contain more than
a third of the whole; the remainder was still concealed
behind two other houses which were inhabited; and when,
after some delay in removing the female part of the
family, I was admitted, I found that the inscription
was not protected by a mud wall as in the former case,
but that the bare wall of the temple was exposed in the
interior of the house, so that the inscription has been in
many places entirely obliterated.
Among the interesting facts revealed by this discovery
of the Greek translation is the almost perfect catalogue of
the new buildings erected by Augustus, which in the
Latin version is extremely faulty. These new buildings
were "the temples of Mars, of Jupiter Tonans and Tri-
umphans, of Apollo, of Julius Quirinus, of Minerva, of
Juno, of Jupiter Eleutherius, of the heroes of the country,
of Juventus, of the Mother of the Gods; the Chalcidicum,
the Forum Augustum, the Theatre of Marcellus, the Ba-
silica Julia, the grove of the Ca:sars, the portico on the
Palatine, the portico in the Hippodrome of Flaminius." He
also restored the Capitol, eighty-two temples, the Via
Flaminia, the aqueducts, and other buildings for public
spectacles, besides presenting gifts to the colonial and
Italian cities, which had been destroyed by earthquakes
and by fires.
There is another interesting inscription in Greek on the
front of one of the Anta?, from which it appears that the
temple was dedicated to Augustus and Rome.f The cir-
cumstance of its having been thus dedicated renders it
highly probable that it is the temple alluded to in the
decree of Augustus, quoted by Josephus,J although Chis-
hull wishes to read igyb^ instead of dyxvpri, and supposes
* See Appendix, No. 102. t See Appendix, No. 103.
1 Joseph. Antiq., lib. xvi. 6.