EQUUS TREMULI
an equestrian statue of Q. Marcius Tremulus, consul in
306 B.C., erected in front of the temple of Castor and Pollux to commemorate his victory over the Hernici (
Liv. ix. 43. 22). It was still
standing in Cicero's day (
Phil. vi. 13), but had disappeared before the time
of Pliny (
NH xxxiv. 23). A concrete base in front of the temple of
Divus Iulius has been believed to be that of this statue (
NS 1904, 106;
CR 1904, 330;
BC 1904, 178-179 ; Atti 583, 584), but it certainly belongs
to the Augustan period (
Mitt. 1905, 73, 74; P1. 260, 261; HC 155).
To suppose either that so comparatively unimportant a monument
would have been restored and placed in front of the new temple, or that,
having been restored, it would so soon have disappeared, is almost
impossible; and it is far more natural to attribute it to a statue of Caesar
himself. See
STATUA (LORICATA) DIVI IULII.