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BASILICA FLOSCELLARIA—BASILICA IULIA
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vaulted roof made it one of the most remarkable buildings in Rome.
The magnificence of its interior decoration was commensurate with its
size and imposing character. It was modelled on the central halls of the
great thermae.
The north-west corner of the basilica joined the wall of the forum
of Vespasian, thereby cutting off the previously existing thoroughfare
between the forum Romanum and the district of the Carinae. Maxentius
therefore constructed a passage-way under the north-west corner of the
building, about 4 metres wide and 15 long. In the Middle Ages this* was
known as the Arco di Latrone1 from its dangerous associations (JRS 1919,
179). For the road round the back of the north-eastern apse see LS
ii. 211 ; PBS ii. 17.
For the older literature and illustrations, see especially : Nibby, Del
Foro Romano, della Via Sacra, dell’ Anfiteatro Flavio, Rome 1819, 189 ff. ;
Del Tempio della Pace (under which name it was generally known before
his time) e della Basilica di Constantino, Rome 1819 ; Roma antica ii.
238 ff. ; Canina, Edifizi ii. pls. 129-132 ; Mel. 1891, 161-167 5 Mitt. 1892,
289 ; more recent : Reber 392-397 ; Middleton ii. 224-229 ; Thed.
343-348; Petersen, Vom alten Rom 31-53; HC 227-231; HJ 11-14 ;
Durm 174, 175, 232, 259-260, 265 ; NS 1878, 132, 163 ; 1879, 14, 263,
264, 312, 313 ; RE iv. 961-962 ; D’Esp. Fr. i. 100 ; ii. 100 ; DuP 105-107 ;
Toeb. i. 117-130; ZA 109-111 ; RA211-215; DR 419-428 ; ASA 84,85.
Basilica Floscellaria : apparently a building devoted to the use of the
flower sellers, mentioned only in Reg. app. and in Pol. Silv. (545)> without
any indication of its location.
Basilica Fulvia : see Basilica Aemilia.
Basilica Gai et Luci : see Basilica Iulia.
Basilica Hilariana : a sort of sanctuary dedicated by the collegium
dendrophorum Matris deum magnae et Attidis in honour of a certain
M’. Poplicius Hilarus (CIL vi. 641, 30973). The vestibule of this basilica
with its inscription on the mosaic floor was found in 1889 on the site of
the Ospedale Militare, but nothing sufficient to indicate its exact form of
construction (Rosch. ii. 2917-2918 ; BC 1890, 18-25, P^s· *·> “· > I9I8>
76-78 ; Mitt. 1891, 109 ; Cons. 277 ff.).
Basilica Hostilia : see Basilica Vestilia.
Basilica Iulia : on the south side of the forum, between the vicus Tuscus
and the vicus Iugarius. It was perhaps begun by Aemilius Paullus on
behalf of Caesar, probably in 54 b.c. (cf. the difficult passage Cic. ad Att.
iv. 16. 8, a letter written in that year, and the commentators, especially
Becker, Top. 301-306 ; Jord. i. 2. 394 ; and contrast AJA 1913, 25, n. 2),
dedicated in an unfinished state in 46 (Mon. Anc. iv. 13 ; Hier. a.
Abr. 1971), completed by Augustus, burned soon afterwards, and, when
1 So Mon. L. i. 551 ; ASRSP 1881, 378. But the correct reading in Ordo Bened. is per
arcum Latone (Jord. ii. 666 ; Lib. Cens., Fabre-Duchesne, ii. 158, § 72).
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vaulted roof made it one of the most remarkable buildings in Rome.
The magnificence of its interior decoration was commensurate with its
size and imposing character. It was modelled on the central halls of the
great thermae.
The north-west corner of the basilica joined the wall of the forum
of Vespasian, thereby cutting off the previously existing thoroughfare
between the forum Romanum and the district of the Carinae. Maxentius
therefore constructed a passage-way under the north-west corner of the
building, about 4 metres wide and 15 long. In the Middle Ages this* was
known as the Arco di Latrone1 from its dangerous associations (JRS 1919,
179). For the road round the back of the north-eastern apse see LS
ii. 211 ; PBS ii. 17.
For the older literature and illustrations, see especially : Nibby, Del
Foro Romano, della Via Sacra, dell’ Anfiteatro Flavio, Rome 1819, 189 ff. ;
Del Tempio della Pace (under which name it was generally known before
his time) e della Basilica di Constantino, Rome 1819 ; Roma antica ii.
238 ff. ; Canina, Edifizi ii. pls. 129-132 ; Mel. 1891, 161-167 5 Mitt. 1892,
289 ; more recent : Reber 392-397 ; Middleton ii. 224-229 ; Thed.
343-348; Petersen, Vom alten Rom 31-53; HC 227-231; HJ 11-14 ;
Durm 174, 175, 232, 259-260, 265 ; NS 1878, 132, 163 ; 1879, 14, 263,
264, 312, 313 ; RE iv. 961-962 ; D’Esp. Fr. i. 100 ; ii. 100 ; DuP 105-107 ;
Toeb. i. 117-130; ZA 109-111 ; RA211-215; DR 419-428 ; ASA 84,85.
Basilica Floscellaria : apparently a building devoted to the use of the
flower sellers, mentioned only in Reg. app. and in Pol. Silv. (545)> without
any indication of its location.
Basilica Fulvia : see Basilica Aemilia.
Basilica Gai et Luci : see Basilica Iulia.
Basilica Hilariana : a sort of sanctuary dedicated by the collegium
dendrophorum Matris deum magnae et Attidis in honour of a certain
M’. Poplicius Hilarus (CIL vi. 641, 30973). The vestibule of this basilica
with its inscription on the mosaic floor was found in 1889 on the site of
the Ospedale Militare, but nothing sufficient to indicate its exact form of
construction (Rosch. ii. 2917-2918 ; BC 1890, 18-25, P^s· *·> “· > I9I8>
76-78 ; Mitt. 1891, 109 ; Cons. 277 ff.).
Basilica Hostilia : see Basilica Vestilia.
Basilica Iulia : on the south side of the forum, between the vicus Tuscus
and the vicus Iugarius. It was perhaps begun by Aemilius Paullus on
behalf of Caesar, probably in 54 b.c. (cf. the difficult passage Cic. ad Att.
iv. 16. 8, a letter written in that year, and the commentators, especially
Becker, Top. 301-306 ; Jord. i. 2. 394 ; and contrast AJA 1913, 25, n. 2),
dedicated in an unfinished state in 46 (Mon. Anc. iv. 13 ; Hier. a.
Abr. 1971), completed by Augustus, burned soon afterwards, and, when
1 So Mon. L. i. 551 ; ASRSP 1881, 378. But the correct reading in Ordo Bened. is per
arcum Latone (Jord. ii. 666 ; Lib. Cens., Fabre-Duchesne, ii. 158, § 72).