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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
LACUS IUTURNAE
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LACUS IUTURNAE
the spring of Juturna in the south corner of the forum,
at the foot of the Palatine, where Castor and Pollux were seen to water
their horses after the battle of Lake Regillus in 496 B.C. (Ov. Fasti i. 706;
Dionys. vi. 13 ; LA 225, 226; Neue Jahrb. 1902, 370-388). Because of
this appearance the temple of CASTOR AND POLLUX (q.v.) was built on the
west side of the spring. The same divinities were also said to have
appeared on the same spot after the victory of Pydna in 168 B.C. (Flor.
i. 28. 15 ; Val. Max. i. 8. I). The spring, in the shape of a puteal, with
Castor and Pollux, is represented on coins of the gens Postumia, of about
90 B.C. (Babelon ii. 379, Nos. 5-6; BM. Rep. ii. 310, 718-723). The water
nymph Juturna belonged properly to the river Numicius, but was brought
to Rome, and became the tutelary deity of those ' qui artificium aqua
exercent' (Serv. Aen. xii. 139), and her name was derived from 'iuvare
quia laborantes iuvare consuevit' (ib.; Varro, LL v. 71; N
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
PORTICUS OCTAVIA
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PORTICUS OCTAVIA
built by Cn. Octavius in 168 B.C. to commemorate
a naval victory over Perseus of Macedonia (Fest. 178; Veil. ii. I). It
stood between the theatre of Pompeius and the circus Flaminius, and was
also called porticus Corinthia from its bronze Corinthian capitals (Plin.
NH xxxiv. 13), perhaps the earliest instance of the use of this order in
Rome (for a possible identification with remains in the Via S. Nicola ai
Cesarini, and representation in the Marble Plan (frg. 140), see BC 1918,
151-155). Augustus restored the building in 33 B.C. (Mon. Anc. iv. 3),
and placed within it the standards which he had taken from the Dalmatians (App. Illyr. 28: Cass. Dio xlix. 43, where there is confusion between this and the porticus Octaviae). It was called multo
amoenissima (Vell. loc. cit.), but has left no traces (HJ 488-489;
AR 1909, 77).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)