Afterwards, a covered building, called the Comitium, was erected for that
purpose. There are no remains of it, but Lumisden thinks that it
probably stood on the south side of the Forum, on the site of the present
church of The Consolation.--Antiq. of Rome, p. 357.

[29] Basilicas, from Basileus; a king. They were, indeed, the palaces
of the sovereign people; stately and spacious buildings, with halls,
which served the purpose of exchanges, council chambers, and courts of
justice. Some of the Basilicas were afterwards converted into Christian
churches. "The form was oblong; the middle was an open space to walk in,
called Testudo, and which we now call the nave. On each side of this
were rows of pillars, which formed what we should call the side-aisles,
and which the ancients called Porticus. The end of the Testudo was
curved, like the apse of some of our churches, and was called Tribunal,
from causes being heard there. Hence the term Tribune is applied to that
part of the Roman churches which is behind the high altar."--Burton's
Antiq. of Rome, p. 204.

[30] Such as statues and pictures, the works of Greek artists.

[31] It appears to have stood at the foot of the Capitoline hill.
Piranesi thinks that the two beautiful columns of white marble, which are
commonly described as belonging to the portico of the temple of Jupiter
Stator, are the remains of the temple of Castor and Pollux.

[32] Ptolemy Auletes, the son of Cleopatra.

[33] Lentulus, Cethegus, and others.

[34] The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus was commenced and completed by