Little Work on the Wonders of the New and Old City of Rome

...down to the present day.

Sacred Way

There was, furthermore, in the city the Sacred Way original: "Via sacra": upon which a treaty was struck between Romulus and Tatius Titus Tatius was the legendary King of the Sabines who ruled jointly with Romulus. Julius Caesar, while he was Dictator, covered this way with awnings from his own house all the way to the Slope original: "Clivus," referring to the Clivus Capitolinus leading to the Capitol. It used to stretch from the Regia The residence of the early kings and later the Pontifex Maximus or from the old Curia The Senate House all the way to the Citadel, and it was through this road that those celebrating triumphs would process to the Capitol. It was also the place where the augurs Priests who interpreted the will of the gods through the flight of birds, having their seat, were accustomed to perform their divinations, not far from the Carinae A fashionable residential district on the western slope of the Esquiline Hill.

New Way

The New Way original: "Via noua", which the Emperor Antoninus Caracalla restored, was located near his own Baths The Baths of Caracalla; it begins from the gate of the palace The Palatine Hill along the base of that same mountain above the Circus Maximus, extending as far as the bottom of the pool. The public pool original: "piscina publica" was located where the Church of Saint Sixtus now stands.

Broad Way

The Broad Way original: "Via lata" was near the Temple of Isis original: "iseum"; it still retains this name today with the Church of Santa Maria in Via Lata. There were also other roads, such as the Janiculan and the Gallic ways, the traces of which are not easily recognized. However, the Emperor Vespasian restored many roads that had been destroyed, as indicated by the letters engraved on a very ancient marble stone placed before the Palace of the Conservators The seat of the city's magistrates on the Capitoline Hill:

Finally, there were public squares original: "plateae" in the city in many various places...