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Palatium, -i, n. : the Palatium, or Mons l'alatinu.=i, the centrai
hiU of the seven hills of Ronie, was the site of the original city. In
later days it was covered with important buildings, publie and
private. On its northern slope was the temple of luppiter Stator,
looking over the Forum. Cicero's house was on the N.E. eilge.
Near it was the house of the orator Hortensius, which afterwards
became the imperial residence of Augustus and his suocessors. and
whieh also boie the name of Palatium (the " Palace ").
Phrygia, -ae, f. : a region comprising niost of the N.W. portion of
Asia Minor, and so including the Troad or territory of Troy. The
adjective Phry.ome in consequence of .Sulla's vietory at Sacriportus.
Scipio, -onis, m. :(l)PubliusConicliusSeipio Aeniilianus Africanus
Minor, son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, the conqueror of Perseus of
Macedonia, was adoptcd by a son of Scipio Africanus Maior, the
conqueror of Hannibal. In 146 B.c. he destroyed Carthage, and so
by this success he earned
brought the Third Punic War to an end ;
of right his adoptive grandfather's title of Afiicanus. In 142 he
was censor, and being elected consul for 134, in the foUowing
year he captur> d Numantia in Spain, which had held out for ten
years against Rome ; Scipio thus completed the conquest of the
country. His approval of the murder of Tiberius Gracchus cost him
the favour of the people ; and in 129, after a violent scene in the
Senate, he was found dead in his bed, the democtatic leader Carbo
being suspected of the murder. Unlike the elder Africanus, he was
severe and simple in his life, and though a lover of Greek literature
he was attached to all that was best in the old Roman charaeter.
(2) A P. Scipio is mentioned in Ch. XXVIII., line 19; he may
have been Put)lius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, nephew of the Na.sica
who led the crovvd of knights and gladialors by whora Tiberius
Gracchus and his associates were killed (133 B.c). He was praetor
in 94 P..C.
Servllius Lacus : an artificial basin situated near the Basilica
lulia, at the point where the Vicus lugarius euters the Forum.
Solon, -orus. m. : a great Athenian reformer and lawgiver. He
was commissioned in 594 b.c. to draw up a code of laws for the
state. He was the founder of the Athenian democracy, and his
constitution and laws reniained in force for many years ; even in