Basilica Aemilia
Basilica Iulia

De Vita Caesarum

C. Suetonius Tranquillus

Quaedam etiam opera sub nomine alieno, nepotum scilicet et uxoris sororisque fecit, ut porticum basilicamque Gai et Luci, item porticus Liviae et Octaviae theatrumque Marcelli.

He constructed some works too in the name of others, his grandsons and nephew to wit, his wife and his sister, such as the colonnade and basilica of Gaius and Lucius; also the colonnades of Livia and Octavia, and the theatre of Marcellus.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from C. Suetonius Tranquillus: Volume I. Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 31, translated by J.C. Rolfe, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1914, 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

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 Iulia
Richardson, L. jr

Basilica Paulli
Richardson, L. jr

Bellum Civile, 2.26
Appianus

Caesar, 29
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Chronica, 148
Chronographus anni 354

Chronicon, 1971
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Jerome)

Curculio, 472
T. Maccius Plautus

De Die Natali Liber, 23.7
Censorinus

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

De Verborum Significatu, 258L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

De Vita Caesarum, 37.1
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)

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

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

Institutio Oratoria, 12.5.6
M. Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian)

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

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

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

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

Silvae, 1.1.29
P. Papinius Statius

Images

Design of Shop Gates
Detail of Frieze Element
Detail of Frieze Element
Detail of Frieze Element
Details of Cornice
Eastern Approach
Elevation Drawing
Engaged Column Details
Gaming Board Carved into Step
Inscription
Internal Arch
Piering Arrangement
Rear Wall
Remains of the Upper Orders of the Basilica
Roofing Solution
Surviving Molding
Triglyph Detail
View from Northwest
View from the East
View of Southwest arcade
View of Tabernae