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He did not build, like his successors, temples and other splendid structures, but he relieved the marketplace of Rome in which the burgess-assemblies, the seats of the chief courts, the exchange, and the daily business-traffic as well as the daily idleness, still were crowded together at least from the assemblies and the courts by constructing for the former a new -comitium-, the Saepta Julia in the Campus Martius, and for the latter a separate place of judicature, the Forum Julium between the Capitol and Palatine.
He did not build, like his successors, temples and other splendid structures, but he relieved the marketplace of Rome in which the burgess-assemblies, the seats of the chief courts, the exchange, and the daily business-traffic as well as the daily idleness, still were crowded together at least from the assemblies and the courts by constructing for the former a new -comitium-, the Saepta Julia in the Campus Martius, and for the latter a separate place of judicature, the Forum Julium between the Capitol and Palatine.
Looking up, I saw Fortunio in a transport of passion. "Fool little fool! Will you be like all the commentators? Will you forget what Virgil has said and put your own nonsense into his golden mouth?" He stepped across, picked up the book, found the passage, and then turning back a page or so, read out "Saepta armis solioque alte subnixa resedit." "Alte!
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