PALES, TEMPLUM
a temple built by M. Atilius Regulus after his victory
over the Sallentini in 267 B.C. (Flor.
Ep. i. 15 (20):
in hoc certamine
victoriae pretium templum sibi pastoria Pales ultro poposcit; schol.
Veron. et Bern. ad Verg. Georg. iii. i ;
EE i. 231). It probably stood on
the Palatine, and seems to have disappeared at an early date (cf.
Tibull.
ii. 5. 28).
The newly discovered pre-Caesarian calendar from Antium has,
under the 7th July, Palibus ii. This has been held to prove that the
Parilia, celebrated on 21st April, the day of the foundation of Rome,
should be derived from parere (
Parilia dicuntur non Palilia, non a Pale
dea, sed quod eo tempore omnia sata arboresque et herbae parturiant
pariantque, Mar. Vict.
GI.L. vi. 25. 23), rather than (under the form
Palilia) from Pales (Varro,
LL vi. 15:
Palilia dicta a Pale, quod ei
Feriae). See Mancini in
NS 1921, 101.
1 The dual form may be accounted
for by the fact that Pales appears sometimes as masculine as well as
feminine (
Rosch. iii. 1277) or by the existence of two temples close
together (cf. Victor(iis) ii in the same Fasti under date 1st August).
