Romanæ historiae anthologia recognita et avcta. An English exposition of the Roman antiquities, wherein many Roman & English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. For the vse of Abingdon Schoole / [Thomas Goodwin].

Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 1587-1642.

Date:: 1628

Credit: Romanæ historiae anthologia recognita et avcta. An English exposition of the Roman antiquities, wherein many Roman & English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. For the vse of Abingdon Schoole / [Thomas Goodwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$che Latines Ca/entea; which was a name of ftrength, whence Evander comining into Jtaly,calledat Ronee from foun Ro- bur. Others fay ,it was focalled from A {canins his daugh« ter, whofe name was Roma. But itis agreed vpon by moft Writers,that.the Founders were Romulus & Remus, & from Romulus it was called Roma ,not Ramula;becaule the dimi- nitiue , Romula ,might ominate leffe profperity therevnto. ¢ Some fay, that they built it in forme ofa quadrangle, vpon : one only hill,called AZons Palatinus. £Orhers fay, that Fa- ‘ Rofin. antiq. bins left Rome as it was firft buile ,~with che fields thereof, PSicon teiur painted inthe forme ot abow, the river Tiber being the Rofo isics, {tring thereof. V pon this Palatine hill, was alwaies the feat of the Romane Empire, which from the hill tooke the deno- mination ofa jPallace:& hence all ¢ {tately buildings which £Rofin, antiq, we call Iallaces,took theirname, Palatia. This hillbad his U™P-4s fir(t appellation Balatinns, abalando)from the bellowing p vid, Servie ofcattle pafturing there informer tities, and afterwards the um in Zineid, a firft letter being changed, it was called Palarinus , by the fi- lib.8, eure *arllsor wy. Usrgil feemeeh to be of opinion,that the hill was called Palatinus , by Evander in xemembrance of his grandfather, whofe name was Palas,according to that ----Pofnerein montibus vrbem, Pallantis proavi de nomine Palanteum. VirgeAncid,/.8. In proceffe of time fix other hills by feuerall Kings of Rome were added; whereby the city and the Pomerium, thatis,the territories ofthe cicy were enlarged: and Rome called(Vrbs fepticollis,id eff,the city vpon feuen hills. tte Sed qua de feptem totum circusm|picit orbem CMontibus smpery Roma detmd, locas, Ovid.Trift. lib. 1 Elegias : Vpon this Palatine hill alfo ood the _Afj/um, or fanQtuarie ; 1)... Gen, of refuges which Remnlus opened ‘ inimitation. of Cadmus, dier.],3,¢.20s who at the building of Thebes was {aid to haue opened a {4- vbi plura leGti- Gtuarie of refuge, whether whatfoever malefaGtor could ef- one digna de tape, were he bond or free,he was not to be punifhed,Ic was Alylis, LN? yA df$