A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
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page 43 of 139 (30%)
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The remains found out along the Valmontone road[130] coincide nearly enough with the provenience of the inscription to settle an amphitheatre here of late imperial date. The tradition of the death of the martyr S. Agapito in an amphitheatre, and the discovery of a Christian church on the Valmontone road, have helped to make pretty sure the identification of these ruins.[131] We know also from an inscription that there was a gladiatorial school at Praeneste.[132] BALNEAE, C.I.L., XIV, 3013, 3014 add. The so-called nymphaeum, the brick building below the Via degli Arconi, mentioned page 41, seems to have been a bath as well as a fountain, because of the architectural fragments found there[133] when it was turned into a mill by the Bonanni brothers. The reservoir mentioned above on page 41 must have belonged also to a bath, and so do the ruins which are out beyond the villa under which the modern cemetery now is. From their orientation they seem to belong to the villa. There were also baths on the hill toward Gallicano, as the ruins show.[134] BYBLIOTHECAE, C.I.L., XIV, 2916. These seem to have been two small libraries of public and private law books.[135] They were in the Forum, as the provenience of the inscription shows. |
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