PORTA CARMENTALIS
a gate in the Servian wall which derived its name
from the neighbouring shrine of
CARMENTA (q.v.) at the south-west corner
of the Capitoline (
Dionys. i. 32;
x. 14;
Solin. i. 13;
Liv. xxiv. 47;
xxv. 7;
xxvii. 37; Plut. Cam. 25). The location of this gate was very
near the intersection of the present Via della Consolazione and the Via
della Bocca della Veriti. It appears to have had two openings (
Liv. ii. 49;
Ov.
Fast. ii. 201), and one of these openings was called porta Scelerata
because the ill-fated Fabii marched through it into Etruscan territory in
306 B.C. (Ov.
Fast. ii. 203; Fest. 285, 334, 335; Verg.
Aen. viii. 337, and
Serv.; Jord. i. I. 238-239;
Hermes 1870, 234;
1882, 428;
Gilb. ii. 299;
RE iii. 1596,
Suppl. iii. 1183; Elter, Cremera u. porta Carmentalis,
Progr. 1910;
AR 1909, 71;
BC 1914, 77;
CR 1918, 14-16; Fowler,
Gathering of the Clans 36; for an erroneous view of the position of this
gate, cf. M61. 1909, 103).
