HORTI VOLUSIANI
known only from an inscription now in the possession
of the American Academy in Rome, a boundary stone between them and
the
HORTI MARSIANI (q.v.). From it we learn that they belonged to
one Ferox Licinianus; and if he is to be identified with (Cn. Pompeius)
Ferox Licinianus (
Pros. iii. 66. 461), who in turn may be the Pompeius
mentioned as one of Domitian's courtiers who was invited to the famous
conclave on the great fish (
Juv. iv. 109 sqq.) and the ' Licinus ' mentioned
by Sidonius Apollinaris (
Ep. v. 7), the inscription would belong to the
period circa 80-120 A.D. It is, further, possible that
CIL vi. 9973 refers
to these hor(ti), and not to the hor(rea) Volusiana (
AJP 1927, 27, 28).
On the other hand a ' vestiarius ' is more appropriate in the latter, and
ib. 7289 certainly seems to imply the existence of such horrea.
