...Over the wall on the southern side of the Villa grounds, you look directly down upon some remains of the Circus Maximus, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine Hills, and where took place the rape of the Sabines. It will take a long while for Niebuhr to efface...

...Over the wall on the southern side of the Villa grounds, you look directly down upon some remains of the Circus Maximus, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine Hills, and where took place the rape of the Sabines. It will take a long while for Niebuhr to efface...

...of the spectators might not pall with satiety. The procession formed in the Campus Martius outside the city. It defiled through the Triumphal Gate at...and Aventine. In passing through the Velabrum the imperator's chariot broke down, a mischance which so aifected him that he never afterwards, it is said,...

...discoveries here too have been of the highest interest. This situation is beneath the hill, toward the Circus Maximus, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine hills. The discoveries have consisted mainly of a series of offices and guard-rooms belonging to the...

...of the spectators might not pall with satiety. The procession formed in the Campus Martius outside the city. It defiled through the Triumphal Gate at...the Palatine and Aventine. In passing through the Yelabrum the imperator's chariot broke down, a mischance which so affected him that he never afterwards,...

...and S. lialbina; then towards the \V. the white tombstones of the Jewish burial-ground on the site of the Circus Maximus, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine; beyond them the Pyramid of Cestius, and in the Campagna S. Paolo Fuori le Mura; then the Aventine with...

...various parts of the gardens, from the tower near the entrance, as well as looking over the site of the CIRCUS MAXIMUS, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine Hills. In our description of the Palatine we have classed the remains in chronological order. In the...

...with its three churches; on the slope the white tombstones of the Jewish burialground on the site of the Circus Maximus, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine ; and lastly the Janiculum and the dome of St. Peter's. We recross the bridge and descend to the right...

...the triumphal gate at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, and crossed the deep hollow of the Velabrurn and Forum Boarium, on its way to the Circus Maximus,...occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine. [46 BC] In passing through the Velabrum, the chariot in which the imperator stood, happened to break...

...would restlessly throng the streets and haunt the neighborhood after vainly struggling for admission. The Circus Maximus, which occupied the valley between the Palatine and Aventine hills, was the most stupendous building ever erected for public spectacles. It was a vast oblong, six...