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Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) tr
Subjects: Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Chautauqua press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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jurors from the place occupied bythe people. The appeals from the provinces in civil causes wereheard, not by the emperor himself, but by his delegates, who werepersons of rank; Augustus had appointed one such delegate to hearappeals from each province respectively. But criminal appealsappear generally to have been heard by the emperor in person,assisted by his council of assessors. Tiberius and Claudius hadusually sat for this purpose in the forum ; but Nero, after the exam-ple of Augustus, heard these causes in the imperial palace. In the private homes of the Romans, the so-called fauces unitedthe front part of the house with the peristyliiint and the garden.But as such narrow passages were not used in palaces, Domitian hadconstructed upon both sides broad halls that grew to the size ofrooms (d). Here the servants were permitted to stay. They mightalso have been used for the keeping of many utensils which wereindispensable for the cleaning of the halls. From the passage one 84 ^ERO.
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entered the court-yard (e), which took in a space of 3,0CK) squaremetres. The floor was cleared, and we can conclude from the rehcsfound there that costly marble columns had formed, in the interior,a sort of passage, which gave a cooling shade to the lord and hisaristocratic guests. Just as the aula regia and the adjacent rooms were devoted toserious business, so were the spaces into which we just enteredreserved for the guests invited to the imperial table. The guests,adorned in festive togas, were carried in their sedan-chairs to the A VISIT TO DOMITIANS TRICLINIUM, 85 side entrance of the palace and hastened, full of expectation, up thefew steps which led them immediately to the octagonal receptionroom (f). There they greeted their friends and looked criticallyat the new-comers, who gazed with embarrassed looks at the mosaicfloor and the ornaments on the walls. Old acquaintances were soonin eager conversation and withdrew mysteriously into the smallerapartments which joined the ant

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