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AUGURACULUM—AUGURATORIUM
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This building is constructed of opiis reticulatum of the time of Augustus,
and stands obliquely across the line of the Servian wall. In form it is
a rectangular hall with a semi-circular apse at the west end, the total
length being 24.IO metres and the width 10.60. Since the floor is 7 metres
below the ancient level of the ground, the hall had to be entered by an
inclined plane. The walls reach 6 metres above the ancient ground
level, and the roof was probably vaulted. In the apse are seven rows of
curved steps, arranged like the cavea of a theatre. Above the steps
in the apse are five niches, and six more in each of the side walls of the
hall. All of these were beautifully painted with garden scenes and
landscapes in the third Pompeian style, but the frescoes have mostly
disappeared. The original pavement was of white mosaic, over which
a later pavement of marble was laid. The purpose of this hall is unknown.
It is probably not an auditorium, but may have been a sort of conserva-
tory, although it is difficult to see how it could have been properly lighted.
It has been ascribed to Maecenas because his Horti (q.v.) were supposed
to have extended as far south as this point, but this is very uncertain
(HJ 351; AJA 1912, 390, 394; Reber 488-491; Bull. d. Inst. 1874,
141-44; 1875, 89-96; Ann. d. Inst. 1880, 137; BC 1874, 137-171 ; 1875,
118 ; a good plan is in BC 1914, 139, where Pinza calls it the Odeon (q.v.).
Auguraculum : the open space (templum) on the arx, where the
public auspices were taken after the Capitoline hill had become a part
of the city. In the centre of this open space was the thatched hut of
the observer, which was preserved in its primitive form at least as late
as the time of Augustus (Vitr. ii. I. 5 ; Varro, LL vii. 8 ; Cic. de off.
iii. 66 ; Fest. 18 ; cf. Plin. NH xxii. 5 ; Liv. i. 24 ; cf. Casa Romuli.
The auguraculum was on the north-east corner of the arx, above the
clivus Argentarius, probably near the apse of the present church of
S. Maria in Aracoeli (Jord. i. 2. 102-106; BC 1910, 132-140; NS 1910,
132 ; Hulsen, Geogr. Jahrb. 1911, 199 ; DAP 2. xii. 149-153 ; PT 148).
Auguraculum (in Quirinale) : a templum on the collis Latiaris, the
southernmost part of the Ouirinal, mentioned only once, in Varro’s
account of the Argei (LL v. 5. 2). It seems to have been the augural
centre of the early Quirinal settlement, as that on the arx was of the
later city (Jord. ii. 264 ; LI J 400 ; DAP 2. xii. 150).
Auguratorium : an augural area on the Palatine, mentioned only in the
Regionary Catalogue and Mirabilia (28). It may have marked the
spot where legend said that Romulus took the auspices, or it may be
identical with the Curia Saliorum (q.v.). It is possible that an inscrip-
tion (CIL vi. 976), recording the restoration of an auguratorium by
Hadrian, may belong to the structure on the Palatine, which a recent
theory identifies with a rectangular foundation of this period between
the temple of Cybele and the domus Augusti (Liviae) (HJ 44-45 ; BC
I9M, 99 J DAP 2. xii. 147-175).
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This building is constructed of opiis reticulatum of the time of Augustus,
and stands obliquely across the line of the Servian wall. In form it is
a rectangular hall with a semi-circular apse at the west end, the total
length being 24.IO metres and the width 10.60. Since the floor is 7 metres
below the ancient level of the ground, the hall had to be entered by an
inclined plane. The walls reach 6 metres above the ancient ground
level, and the roof was probably vaulted. In the apse are seven rows of
curved steps, arranged like the cavea of a theatre. Above the steps
in the apse are five niches, and six more in each of the side walls of the
hall. All of these were beautifully painted with garden scenes and
landscapes in the third Pompeian style, but the frescoes have mostly
disappeared. The original pavement was of white mosaic, over which
a later pavement of marble was laid. The purpose of this hall is unknown.
It is probably not an auditorium, but may have been a sort of conserva-
tory, although it is difficult to see how it could have been properly lighted.
It has been ascribed to Maecenas because his Horti (q.v.) were supposed
to have extended as far south as this point, but this is very uncertain
(HJ 351; AJA 1912, 390, 394; Reber 488-491; Bull. d. Inst. 1874,
141-44; 1875, 89-96; Ann. d. Inst. 1880, 137; BC 1874, 137-171 ; 1875,
118 ; a good plan is in BC 1914, 139, where Pinza calls it the Odeon (q.v.).
Auguraculum : the open space (templum) on the arx, where the
public auspices were taken after the Capitoline hill had become a part
of the city. In the centre of this open space was the thatched hut of
the observer, which was preserved in its primitive form at least as late
as the time of Augustus (Vitr. ii. I. 5 ; Varro, LL vii. 8 ; Cic. de off.
iii. 66 ; Fest. 18 ; cf. Plin. NH xxii. 5 ; Liv. i. 24 ; cf. Casa Romuli.
The auguraculum was on the north-east corner of the arx, above the
clivus Argentarius, probably near the apse of the present church of
S. Maria in Aracoeli (Jord. i. 2. 102-106; BC 1910, 132-140; NS 1910,
132 ; Hulsen, Geogr. Jahrb. 1911, 199 ; DAP 2. xii. 149-153 ; PT 148).
Auguraculum (in Quirinale) : a templum on the collis Latiaris, the
southernmost part of the Ouirinal, mentioned only once, in Varro’s
account of the Argei (LL v. 5. 2). It seems to have been the augural
centre of the early Quirinal settlement, as that on the arx was of the
later city (Jord. ii. 264 ; LI J 400 ; DAP 2. xii. 150).
Auguratorium : an augural area on the Palatine, mentioned only in the
Regionary Catalogue and Mirabilia (28). It may have marked the
spot where legend said that Romulus took the auspices, or it may be
identical with the Curia Saliorum (q.v.). It is possible that an inscrip-
tion (CIL vi. 976), recording the restoration of an auguratorium by
Hadrian, may belong to the structure on the Palatine, which a recent
theory identifies with a rectangular foundation of this period between
the temple of Cybele and the domus Augusti (Liviae) (HJ 44-45 ; BC
I9M, 99 J DAP 2. xii. 147-175).