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SEPULCRUM ACCAE LARENTIAE

the tomb of Acca Larentia in the Velabrum at the beginning of the Nova via, near the porta Romanula (Varro, LL vi. 24; Cic. Ep. ad Brut. i. 15; Macrob. i. 10. 15: celeberrimo loco; Plut. Rom. 5), beside which was an altar where sacrifices were offered by the pontifices on 23rd December (HJ 45; RE i. 132; Gilb. i. 56-58; cf. Mommsen, Rem. Forsch. ii. 3-5; Rosch. i. 5).

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