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Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, 1884, II. 1259-1270. [23] In my first lecture as Sandars Reader at Cambridge in the Lent Term, 1900, I pointed out that this enclosure was of about the same size as Nevile's Court at Trinity College, if to the central area there we add the width of one of the cloisters; and that the temple of Athena was of exactly the same width as the Hall, but about 15 feet shorter. Nevile's Court is 230 feet long from the inside of the pillars supporting the Library to the wall of the Hall; and it has a mean breadth of 137 feet. If the width of the cloister, 20 feet, be added to this, we get 157 feet in lieu of the 162 feet at Pergamon. [24] Now in the Royal Museum, Berlin. [25] Similar sockets have been discovered in the walls of the chambers connected with the Stoa of King Attalus at Athens. These chambers are thought to have been shops, and the sockets to have supported shelves on which wares were exposed for sale. Conze, ut supra, p. 1260; Adler, _Die Stoa des Koenigs Attalos zu Athen_, Berlin, 1874; Murray's _Handbook for Greece_, ed. 1884, 1. p. 255. [26] Suetonius, _Caesar_, Chap. 44. [27] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, Book VII., Chap. 30; Book XXXV., Chap. 2. [28] Suetonius, _Augustus_, Chap. 29. [29] Isidore, _Origines_, Book VI., Chap. 5. [30] Lanciani, _Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome_, ed. 1897, p. 471. Middleton, Ancient Rome, 1892, II. 204, 205. [31] Nibby, _Roma Antica_, p. 601. [Augusto] vi aggiunse un luogo per conversare chiamato _Schola_. [32] Vell. Pat., Book 1., Chap. II. Hic est Metellus Macedonicus qui porticus quae fuere circumdatae duabus aedibus sine inscriptione positis, quae nunc Octaviae porticibus ambiuntur, fecerat. [33] Suet. _De Illustr. Gramm._ c. 2. [34] Middleton, _Ancient Rome_, 1892, II. 205. [35] I have taken these dimensions from Middleton's Plan of the Palatine Hill (_ut supra_, p. 156), but until the site has been excavated they must be more or less conjectural. [36] Middleton, _Ibid._, I. 185-188. The evidence for the portraits rests on the following passage in the _Annals_ of Tacitus ii. 37, where he is relating how Hortalus, grandson of the orator Hortensius, being reduced to poverty, came with his four children to the Senate: "igitur quatuor filiis ante limen curiae adstantibus, loco sententiae, cum in Palatio senatus haberetur, modo Hortensii inter oratores sitam imaginem, modo Augusti, intuens, ad hunc modum coepit." [37] Pausan
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