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rostra

In ancient Rome, a platform from which public speakers used to address the people. It stood between the forum and comitium (the main place of political assembly), and was so called because it was decorated with prows (Latin rostra) of warships captured from Antium 338 BC. Julius Caesar built new rostra at the west end of the forum.

In modern English the singular form, ‘rostrum’, is used for a speaker's platform or dais.
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They can navigate through the Forum, past the platform or rostra from which Cicero once declaimed, admire the statues, read the inscriptions, pry into palaces, and then slip round to the Colosseum or whisk over to the Circus Maximus where the ancient Romans held their chariot races.
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Two great examples are; * The arch of Titus * The arch of of Septimus Severus Endless creativity The Rostra, from which politicians made speeches, is still in evidence.
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