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AVgustus built many things under the name of others, as wee find it written by authours in many sundry. And among the rest was the Theatre of Marcellus his nephew or cousin by his sister Octavia.
A part hereof is yet to bee seene betweene the Capitoll and Tyber, where now standeth the pallace of the Sabelli. It was able to containe eightie thousand men. See more thereof in Asconius.
Hard by the very same Theatre was the gallerie of Octavia, reared by the said Augustus for his si∣ster Octavias sake. Therein were certaine curious peeces of worke wrought by Praxiteles, and name∣ly the ravishing of Proserpina. The portraiture of Bacchus and Satyrus. Also Apollo, Diana, and the nine muses, the workmanship of Timarchides. VVithin this gallerie or walking place, Plinie saith there stood a chappell of Iuno, and the image of the said goddesse. Fast by the said gallerie stood the court or pal∣laee of Octavia, and in it Cupid portraied with lightening in his hand. It tooke up in times past as great a space, as at this day the churches of S. Nicholas in Carcere, and S. Marie in Porticu.
After the death of Marcellus, Octavia his mother set up a librarie neere his Theatre. Now the first that ever ordained, That bookes of all learning should bee in some publicke places bestowed for to bee read of all that would come; was at Athens Pisistratus the tyrant, and at Rome Asinius Pollio.