FONS, DELUBRUM
a shrine dedicated in 231 B.C. by Cn. Papirius Maso
from the booty that he had taken in Corsica (Cic. de nat. deor. iii. 52).
Its site was probably just outside the porta Fontinalis in the extreme
southern part of the campus Martius (cf. a fragment of the calendar found
on the Esquiline in 1894,
CIL vi. 32493, pr. Id. Oct.:
1 Fonti extra p . . .,
probably to be completed
portam Fontinalem, and Fest. 85: Fontinalia fontium sacra unde et Romae Fontinalis porta; HJ 483-484;
RE vi. 2839;
DE iii. 181).