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101 A New Voyage Vol. II.
tate moritur , Memoria Cineris in acre arte revi-
vi/cit.
Adjoyning to the Right Wing of the Capitol,
there is a Church call’d Ara Cteli; ’tis said, that
Auguftus having consulted the Oracle at Delphos,
to know who shou’d succeed him in the Empire,
cou’d not for a long time obtain an Answer to
his redoubl’d Sollicitations; and, that at last the
Oracle desir’d the Emperor to retire, declaring,
that it was not able to satisfie him, because its
Mouth was ssopp’d by the Hebrew Child, who was
the Son of God, and true God himself. The
Story adds, that Augu[ius finding this Declaration
to agree with the Sibyllin Prophecies, immediately
order’d an Altar to be built in the Capitol, to the
Honour of the Hebrew Child mention’d by the O-
racle, calling it Ara Primogeniti Dei, the Altar os
theFirlt-bornos 'God. The Church call’d Ara Cadi
is built in the same place, so that Augustus's Altar
remains flill near the Quire.
The Prison to which, they believe, St. Peter
and St. Paul were sent, after they had receiv’d the
Sentence of Death, is very near this place: It is
at present a Chapel, by the name of S. Pietro in
carcere. ’Tis the general Opinion of Antiquaries,
that this is the Tullianum which was finish’d by
Servius Tullius, or Tullius HofiiHus, where only con-
demn’d Malefactors were imprison’d. Here they
* They pretend {flow a little * Spring, which, they say, gufli’d
tnat^theWater out of t]1£ at t]le prayei- of St. Peter, that
baptize certain Proseiytes. They made
txjte. us also take notice of the Impression of that
Apostle’s Face on the Wall, which they told was
made by the yielding of the Stone, when he
was thrust against it by a Blow which he receiv’d
from a Soldier.
There
tate moritur , Memoria Cineris in acre arte revi-
vi/cit.
Adjoyning to the Right Wing of the Capitol,
there is a Church call’d Ara Cteli; ’tis said, that
Auguftus having consulted the Oracle at Delphos,
to know who shou’d succeed him in the Empire,
cou’d not for a long time obtain an Answer to
his redoubl’d Sollicitations; and, that at last the
Oracle desir’d the Emperor to retire, declaring,
that it was not able to satisfie him, because its
Mouth was ssopp’d by the Hebrew Child, who was
the Son of God, and true God himself. The
Story adds, that Augu[ius finding this Declaration
to agree with the Sibyllin Prophecies, immediately
order’d an Altar to be built in the Capitol, to the
Honour of the Hebrew Child mention’d by the O-
racle, calling it Ara Primogeniti Dei, the Altar os
theFirlt-bornos 'God. The Church call’d Ara Cadi
is built in the same place, so that Augustus's Altar
remains flill near the Quire.
The Prison to which, they believe, St. Peter
and St. Paul were sent, after they had receiv’d the
Sentence of Death, is very near this place: It is
at present a Chapel, by the name of S. Pietro in
carcere. ’Tis the general Opinion of Antiquaries,
that this is the Tullianum which was finish’d by
Servius Tullius, or Tullius HofiiHus, where only con-
demn’d Malefactors were imprison’d. Here they
* They pretend {flow a little * Spring, which, they say, gufli’d
tnat^theWater out of t]1£ at t]le prayei- of St. Peter, that
baptize certain Proseiytes. They made
txjte. us also take notice of the Impression of that
Apostle’s Face on the Wall, which they told was
made by the yielding of the Stone, when he
was thrust against it by a Blow which he receiv’d
from a Soldier.
There