The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

CHAP. XXI. Caesars Forum: the palace of Paulus, and his Librarie.

BEsides the temple of Saturne, or the common treasurie (wherof we have written before in the 16 chapter of this booke) in the Romane Forum toward the Northeast, was Caesars Forum, even in that very place which seemeth lower than the rest, behind the temple of Faustina. There, was the temple of Venus Genitrix, about which, Caesar made a cloister and a Forum, not of wares and marchandise to be sold, but for them that repaired thither for justice in law matters. In this Fo∣rum, among other statues (whereof there were many and those most faire and beautifull) he suffered his owne to be made, all armed. The Forum it selfe contained but a small compasse, but it was most ex∣cellently set out. The very level of the plot stood him in an hundred millions of Asses and above.

Caesar purchased with 1500 talents, Paulus Aemilius the colleague of C. Marcellus in his Conshulship, to be his friend and to stand with him. Paulus having received this summe of mony, built in the mids

of the Forum neere to the temple of Castor and Pollux, a most excellent and wonderfull pallace, of Phrygian columnes, which afterwards they named, Basilici Pauli.

A Librarie also the same Paulus erected, neere unto his owne Basilici.