hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 16 | 16 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 8 | 8 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Your search returned 29 results in 26 document sections:
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK V.
AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED., CHAP. 5. (5.)—CYRENAICA. (search)
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 28 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 12 (search)
AQUA VIRGO
* an aqueduct completed by Agrippa on 9th June 19 B.C.
(Ovid, Fast. i. 464; ex Pont. i. 8. 38; Frontinus, de aquis i. 4, 10, 18, 22;
ii. 70,84; Seneca, Ep. 83. 5; Mart. v. 20. 9; vi. 42. 18; vii. 32. 11;
xi. 47. 6; Plin. NH xxxi. 42; xxxvi. 121, who is in error in attributing it
to 33 B.C., and in associating the rivus Herculaneus with it; see AQUA
MARCIA; Stat. Silv. i. 5. 26; Cass. Dio liv. 11; Not. app.; Pol. Silv.
545, 546; Cassiodor. Var. vii. 6; CIL vi. 1252-1254; 31564, 31565; NS
1910, 547).
The springs were situated at the eighth mile of the via Collatina, i.e.
two miles to the left of the eighth mile of the via Praenestina, in agro
Lucullano (PBS i. 139, 143), and produced 2504 quinariae or 103,916
cubic metres in 24 hours. The subterranean course was 12,865 paces long,
and 540 paces were carried on substructions. A girl is said to have shown
the springs to some soldiers, hence the name; the incident was recorded
by a painting in a chapel near the springs (Fron
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
ARCUS AUGUSTI
(search)
ARCUS AUGUSTI
* two arches erected in honour of Augustus in the forum,
one in 29 B.C., to commemorate the victory at Actium, the other in 19 B.C.,
on account of the return of the standards captured by the Parthians
at Carrhae (Cass. Dio li. 19; liv. 8). It is explicitly stated that the
latter stood iuxta aedem divi Iulii (Schol B.C. 1 Dated 16 B.C. by the B.M. Catalogue. on a denarius
of Vinicius (Babelon, Vinicia 4; Cohen, Aug. 544; BM Rep. ii. 50, 4477-8
= BM Aug. 77, 78), and that of 19 B.C. on coins of 18-17 B.C. (Cohen,
Aug. 82-85; BM Aug. 427-9). The earlier coins represent a triple arch,
surmounted with a quadriga in the centre and barbarians on t ndations, which themselves rest on the pavement of an earlier street.
If the evidence cited above were all we had, we should identify these
ruins with the arch of 19 B.C., on the strength of the scholiast's iuxta
aedem divi Iulii, but an inscription (CIL vi. 873), cut in a block of Parian
marble 2.67 metres long, was found in 1546/
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
FORTUNA REDUX, ARA
(search)
FORTUNA REDUX, ARA
an altar erected by the senate in 19 B.C. near the
porta Capena, in honour of the return of Augustus from the east, when
he entered the city, 12th October (Mon. Anc. ii. 29, Greek version, vi. 7:bwmo\s *tu/xhs *swth/riou; Fast. Amit. ad iv Id. Oct. et ad xviii Kal. Ian.;
Fast. Cum. ad xviii Kal. Ian.; Prop. iv. 3. 71; Cass. Dio liv. 10:*tu/xh| te )*epanagw/gw| bwmo/n). At this altar the Augustalia were celebrated by
pontiffs and Vestals (Mommsen, RGDA2 46-47; CIL i². p. 331-332). The
altar itself was dedicated on 15th December (sec Fasti above) and is
represented on several coins (Babelon ii. 412, Rustia 3 ; Cohen, August.
102-108, 513; BM Rep. ii. 34. 4440-4; 77. 4580, Aug. 2. 358-361).
An aedituus Fortunae reducis (CIL vi. 8705) can hardly have belonged
to this altar (HJ 204; Rosch. i. 1525-1526; RE vii. 37; BC 1908, 121-122).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
STAGNUM AGRIPPAE
(search)
STAGNUM AGRIPPAE
an artificial pool of considerable size, constructed
by Agrippa by the side of his THERMAE (q.v.), with which and the HORTI
(q.v.) it formed one whole (Ovid, ex Ponto i. 8. 37-38; Strabo xiii. I.
19 (590)). This stagnum was fed by the aqua Virgo, which Agrippa
finished in 19 B.C., and was probably connected with the Tiber by the
EURIPUS (q.v.). It was almost certainly on the west side of the thermae,
north of the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele, and between the Via di
Monterone and the Via dei Sediari, an area afterwards partly occupied
by the PORTICUS BONI EVENTUS (q.v.) of the fourth century (HJ 580;
Hulsen, Thermen des Agrippa, 32-33; Gilb. iii. 293-294).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
THERMAE AGRIPPAE
(search)
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)