The TORRE DI CONTI, _on the right_, is a massive tower of the middle
ages, built as a fortress, and supposed to stand on the site of the
Temple of the Earth. "Lenæus, the grammarian, opened a school in the
Carinæ, near the Temple of the Earth, where stood the house of the
Pompeys" (Suetonius, "Grammarians," xv.). "Tiberius removed from
Pompey's house in the Carinæ" (Suetonius, "Tiberius," xv.). "The house
of Cassius was demolished; and to this day the place remains void,
except that part on which they afterwards built the Temple of the
Earth, which stands in the street leading to the Carinæ" (Dionysius,
viii. 79).
_Going up that street_, we come to some old steps, _on our right_, at
the top of which is the lane that led down from the Carinæ to the
Vicus Cyprius, across which was the Sister's Yoke (Dionysius, iii.
22).