ROMAN LIBRARIES
All of these libraries were probably or certainly double, containing both Greek and Latin books in separate collections. The public library which Caesar planned and for which Varro began to buy books was to contain both. The library of Pollio had, in fact, the double libraries, as did also the Octavian, the Apollonine and the Ulpian; all of these with separate buildings for the two languages.
In the Octavian library two temples stood in a great quadrangular portico with "schola" or "conversation hall" behind it and behind that the libraries "with the curia between them." In the Apollonine library the temple stood "in a large open peristyle, connected with which were the two libraries and between them, used perhaps as a reading room or vestibule, was a hall in which Augustus occasionally convened the Senate." The Ulpian later shows a similar arrangement, the middle room being an open portico in which
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