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THat Romulus and Remus being shepheards abode sometime in these parts, the sheds and cotta∣ges, which long time after were found here, made of slight wood and reed, doe testifie: which as any of them in continuance of time decaied and fell downe, the shepheards repaired with the like matter to their auncient forme, that the perpetuall memoriall of Romulus and Remus
the citie founders, what kind of persons they were, and what manner of houses they woned in, might be delivered to posteritie. In that corner of the Palatine hill, which leadeth into the grand cirque or shew-place, there stood (many ages) the cottage which they called Casa Romuli.
Tullus Hustilius, before he built his court dwelt upon Velia, in that verie place where afterwards the chappell of the Penates stood.
Not farre from thence, even in that part of the Palatine which regardeth the Forum, Catiline (by report) had his house built.
Moreover, betweene M. Scaurus his house and Catilines, there was but a small step over.
Ciceroes house purchased of Crassus, was in the most frequent and conspicuous place of the mount Palatine, above the church of Iup. Stator, neere the Palatium.
Plinie testifieth, how the houses of Crassus the orator, and Viterbius, in the Palatium, were in old time overturned.
One captaine Vanas likewise had an house in the Palatium.
Also Tyberius, where of we have written in the former chapter.
Augustus (borne in the region about Palatium, in a place called Capita bubula, i. the oxe heads; and where after his death, they erected a chappell unto him) dwelt first neere the Romane Forum, above the round staires called Scalae annulariae, in the house sometime of Calvus the oratour. After∣wards he built the stately Palatine at his owne charges and gave it to the city, and himselfe dwelt on the Palatine hill in the small house of Hortensius.
The Guild, or religious court of the Salij, built in the mount Palatine, chaunced to be burnt; and in the ashes thereof, the staffe of Romulus called Lituus was found, without any hurt.
Publicola dwelt in an house standing over the Forum, which was called Subvelia.
That the dwelling house of Tarquinius Priscus was neere unto the temple of Iup. Stator, may soone be prooved out of Livie.