Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Graecostasis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

GRAECOS'TASIS. The foreign embassy; a building in the Roman Forum, near the Comitium, in which ambassadors from foreign states were lodged at the public expense during their mission. (Varro, L. L. v. 155. Cic. Q. Fr. ii. 1.) Three magnificent Corinthian columns, with a portion of their entablature, still standing under the north-east corner of the Palatine hill, are supposed by some antiquaries to be the remains of the edifice; but the style of the architecture, which presents one of the most perfect models now remaining in Rome, is certainly antecedent to the reign of Antoninus, to which period any ruins of the Graecostasis, if they now remained, must belong, as it was rebuilt by that emperor, after having been totally destroyed by fire. Capitol. Antonin. 8.