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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 35 35 Browse Search
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M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, STATUA MARSYAE (search)
e of the Phrygian Silenus, which stood in an enclosure in the middle of the forum, together with the figtree, olive and vine (see FICUS, OLEA, VITIS), near the TRIBUNAL PRAETORIS (q.v.), and the lacus Curtius (Hor. Sat. i. 6. 120 and Ps. Acron and Porphyrion ad loc.; Sen. de benef. vi. 32; Mart. ii. 64. 7; Plin. NH xxi. 8-9; Juv. ix. 2; Hulsen, Nachtrag 15-19). This statue appears in relief on the famous plutei (see reff. under ROSTRA AUGUSTI); and coins struck by L. Marcius Censorinus between 86 and 81 B.C. (Babelon, Monnaies, Marcia 42; BM. Rep. i. 338, pl. xl. 3-4) represent the satyr standing on a square pedestal with right foot advanced, a wine skin thrown over his left shoulder with his left hand holding its opening, and his right hand raised. The statue is nude except for sandals and the Phrygian hat (pileus), and represents the Greek type of the fourth century B.C. How long before 8 B.C. this statue was erected in the forum, and why it was brought here, we do not know. Accordin