Basilica Iulia

De Vita Caesarum

C. Suetonius Tranquillus

Quin et nummos non mediocris summae e fastigio basilicae Iuliae per aliquot dies sparsit in plebem.

He even scattered large sums of money among the commons from the roof of the basilica Julia for several days in succession.

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

Basilica Iulia
Richardson, L. jr

Chronica, 148
Chronographus anni 354

Chronicon, 1971
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (Jerome)

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

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

Epigrammata, 6.38.6
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)

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