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Hic ubi miramur velocia munera thermas, Ĭlaudia diffusas ubi porticus explicit umbras, Hic ubi conspicui venerabilis amphitheatri [This is an echo of the epigram quoted by Suetonius, Nero,39: Roma domus fiet: Veios migrate, Quirites, (the atrium stood on the summit of the Velia) unaque iam tota stabat in urbe domus. (perhaps the scaffolding for the erection of the arch of Titus: the usual explanation of the line - HJ 17 - to mean that the machinery of the amphitheatre was stored in the ruins of the vestibule of the Golden House is unsatisfactory - why media via? The blocking up of the Sacra Via by Nero must have been intensely unpopular and it seems strange to store or construct ‘pegmata’ there.) (See Colossus Neronis sidereus simply means ‘glittering.’) et crescunt media pegmata celsa via, 2), who is writing in praise of Vespasian: Hic ubi sidereus propius videt astra colossus The area occupied is further defined by Martial ( de spect. quam arva et stagna et in modum solitudinum hinc silvae, inde aperta spatia et prospectus, magistris et machinatoribus Severo et Celere). The landscape gardening of the great park in which the buildings were set is also emphasised by Tacitus: in qua haud perinde gemmae et aurum miraculo essent. eius modi domum cum absolutam dedicaret, hactenus comprobavit, ut se diceret quasi p167 hominem tandem habitare coepisse. conchis erant cenationes laqueatae tabulis eburneis versatilibus, ut flores, fistulatis, ut unguenta desuper spargerentur praecipua cenationum rotunda, quae perpetuo diebus ac noctibus vice mundi circumageretur balineae marinis et albulis fluentes aquis. In ceteris partibus cuncta auro lita, distincta gemmis unionumque [large pearl oysters, cf. Vestibulum eius fuit, in quo colossus CXX pedum staret ipsius effigie tanta laxitas, ut porticus triplices miliarias haberet item stagnum maris instar, circumsaeptum aedificiis ad urbium speciem rura insuper, arvis atque vinetis et pascuis silvisque varia, cum multitudine omnis generis pecudum ac ferarum.