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n. viii. 104), and within the line of the Palatine pomerium at one corner (Tac. Ann. xii. 24). It stood, therefore, in the eastern part of the forum Boarium, near the carceres of the circus, and probably very near to the temple of HERCULES VICTOR (q.v.), that is, at the north-east corner of the Piazza di Bocca della Verita, north of S. Maria in Cosmedin (LS iii. 41-42; DAP 2. vi. 274). This altar was burned in the fire of Nero (Tac. Ann. xv. 41), but was restored, and was standing in the fourth century (Fest. Serv. locc. citt.). To the second, third, and fourth centuries belong several inscriptions, dedicated by praetors to Hercules Invictus (CIL vi. 312-315, 317-318; 316 Alcide ; 319 Hercules Victor), which were found near by when the ruins of the round temple, identified with that of HERCULES VICTOR (q.v.), were destroyed during the pontificate of Sixtus IV, and it is not certain whether these inscriptions belonged to the temple or ara, or both. No traces of the altar itself have eve