Basilica Aemilia

De Verborum Significatu

Sextus Pompeius Festus

Plebeias tabernas noamus a genere magistratus. Eas enim faciendas curaverunt M. Iunius Brutus, Q. Oppius aediles plebis.

They call the Plebian shops new.................and there are said to have been seven formerly. We name them Plebeian from the type of magistrates. For M. Iunius Brutus and Q. Oppius, aediles of the plebs, had the contract for building them.

Translation by Jane W. Crawford, © 2001.

Texts

Ab Urbe Condita, 40.51.5
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 35.23.7
T. Livius (Livy)

Annales, 3.72
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Basilica Paulli
Richardson, L. jr

Bellum Civile, 2.26
Appianus

Caesar, 29
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Curculio, 472
T. Maccius Plautus

De Die Natali Liber, 23.7
Censorinus

De Lingua Latina, 6.4
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

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

Epistulae ad Atticum, Att.4.16.8
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Gallieni Duo, 19.4
Scriptores Historiae Augustae

Historiae Romanae, 56.27.5
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 54.24
Cassius Dio

Naturalis Historia, 7.215
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Naturalis Historia, 36.102
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Naturalis Historia, 35.13
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Images

Detail of Frieze Element
Detail of Frieze Element
Detail of Frieze Element
Details of Cornice
Elevation Drawing
Inscription
Remains of the Upper Orders of the Basilica
Roofing Solution
Triglyph Detail
View from the East
View of Tabernae