CHAP. XX. The columne called Mania: the pillar Horatia: the houses of Caesar, Constantine, and Domitian. The temple and court-yard of the said Caesar.
IN that part of the Forum was the columne Moenia, where stood the pallace of Portius. Called Moenia it was, of Moenius the Censor: for hee (when as he sold unto Cato his house, and when Flaccus the other Censor gave order, that the palace aforesaid should there be built) reserved in the sale so much space for himselfe, as a pillar or columne would take up: upon the which he might put out a loft to juttie forth, made of joists and bourds upon them: from which place both he and his posteritie might behold the sport of sword-fencers. And this priviledge hee obtained: whereup∣on, others also, as many as might bee allowed, were as industrious, and built them columnes in the Forum.
There stood a rock of stone also in the Forum, whereupon the spoiles of the three twinnes Curiatij were hanged.
In like manner, the pillar called Horatia.
The houses of Caesar, Constantine, and Domitian beautified the Forum.
Likewise the court and cloister of Minerva; and the shops [of Bankers] as well old as new.
The dead corps of Caesar was brought out of the Curia into the Forum, and enterred in that place, where afterwards they built unto him an altar and temple.
Likewise in the Forum the manner of the Romanes was, to lay downe their magistracie.