ARCUS OCTAVII
an arch on the Palatine which Augustus is said to have
erected in honour of his father (Plin.
NH xxxvi. 36:
Lysiae opus quod in
Palatio super arcum divus Augustus honori Octavi patris sui dicavit in
aedicula columnis adornata, id est quadriga currusque et Apollo ac Diana
ex uno lapide). It has been conjectured (
BC 1883, 190) that this arch
formed the entrance to the sacred precinct of the temple of APOLLO
(q.v.), but this seems impossible of proof. Some fragments found
in the middle of the sixteenth century may have belonged to this arch
(Vacca, Mem. 76). The aedicula with a statue on the top of the arch
was without parallel in Rome, so far as we know (Gardthausen, Augustus
und seine
Zeit i. 962; Richter 147; HJ 69; Jex-Blake and Sellers,
The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art 208).