PILA HORATIA
a memorial of the victory won by the Horatii over the
Curiatii. The spoils of the latter were said to have been fastened
eo
loco qui nunc pila Horatia appellatur (Liv. i. 26. io), loco celebri cui pila
Horatia nomen est (Schol. Bob. Cic. pro Mil. p. 277). In the Augustan
period the pila was the corner column of one of the two basilicas at the
entrance of the forum, on which the spoils of the Curiatii had once been
hung, and which had retained the name after the spoils had disappeared
(
Dionys. iii. 22. 9).
1 Whatever may have been the original form of the
monument it was evidently represented at this later time by a pillar or
column at the south-east or south-west corner of the basilica Aemilia,
or at the north-east corner of the basilica Iulia (
Jord. i. 2. 394-395;
Thedenat 105-106, 213-214;
RE viii. 2325;
Gilb. ii. 67-70; cf. Rev.
de l'hist. d. rel. 1907, 316; Rh.
Mus. 1909, 468;
AR 1909, 233;
WS
1912, 321;
BC 1914, 104; DR 465).
