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 Pretorium, the Quarters of the Pretorian bands, which the Emperors lodged here, a little out of the throng of the town, that they might not occasion so easily tumults; and that they might exercise themselves often in the Circo of Caracalla which was hard by.

This Circus was made by the Emperor Caracalla, and is the most entire of all the Circos that were in Rome. You see where the Carceres, or starting place was, where the Meta; where the Guglia were. You see how long it was, and the walls yet show you what compass it carryed. In the midst of it stood that Guglia which now stands in the midst of Piazza Navona. I saw it lye here broken in three pieces, and neglected quite till the Earl of Arundel our late Lord Marshal, offering to buy it & having already deposited threescore crownes in earnest for it, made the Romans begin to think that it was some fine thing, and stop the transporting of it into England. At last it light upon a good stone-setter, who joyned