Basilica Iulia

Epistulae ad Atticum

M. Tullius Cicero

Paulus in medio foro basilicam iam paene refecit isdem antiquis columnis, illam autem, quam locavit, facit magnificentissimam.

Paulus has almost reached the roof of his colonnade in the Forum. He has used the same old columns, but has executed most magnificently the part he put out on contract.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Tullius Cicero: Volume XXII. Letters to Atticus, Volume 1 , Loeb Classical Library Vol. 7, translated by E.O. Winstedt, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1912, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Texts

Basilica Iulia
Richardson, L. jr

Chronica, 148
Chronographus anni 354

Chronicon, 1971
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Jerome)

De Vita Caesarum, 37.1
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

De Vita Caesarum, 29.4
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

Epigrammata, 6.38.6
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

Epigrammata, 6.38.5-6
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

Epistulae, 5.9.1
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

Historiae Romanae, 56.27.5
Cassius Dio

Institutio Oratoria, 12.5.6
M. Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian)

Monumentum Ancyranum (Res Gestae), 20
C. Iulius Caesar Octavianus (Augustus)

Silvae, 1.1.29
P. Papinius Statius

Images

Design of Shop Gates
Eastern Approach
Engaged Column Details
Gaming Board Carved into Step
Internal Arch
Piering Arrangement
Rear Wall
Surviving Molding
View from Northwest
View of Southwest arcade