CHAP. XV. The Arches of Romulus, the Senaculum, and the dwelling house of Ovid.
THe old arches (which some thinke Romulus erected) continued a long time built of bricke, nei∣ther would the Romanes suffer that any man should make them of marble: to the end, that the memoriall of their citie founder, should remaine more firmely in the minds of men. But in con∣tinuance of time long after, they decaied and fell downe, in that very place where now is the church of Saint Marie of Grace, and were never afterwards reedified. The Romanes named that place Senaculum, betweene the Capitoll and the Forum, wherein the Senate kept a consistorie for counsell and consultation.
That Ovids mansion house stood under the Capitoll, himselfe witnesseth, even where as now the church is of S. Marie of Consolation.
Thus much of the buildings of the Capitoll and the valley to it. Now followeth the mount Pala∣tine.