SEPULCRUM ACCAE LARENTIAE
the tomb of Acca Larentia in the Velabrum
at the beginning of the Nova via, near the porta Romanula (Varro,
LL vi.
24; Cic. Ep. ad
Brut. i. 15;
Macrob. i. 10. 15:
celeberrimo loco; Plut.
Rom. 5), beside which was an altar where sacrifices were offered by
the pontifices on 23rd December (HJ 45;
RE i. 132;
Gilb. i. 56-58;
cf. Mommsen, Rem.
Forsch. ii. 3-5;
Rosch. i. 5).