CATABULUM
probably a sort of warehouse and depot on
the via Lata,
opposite the Saepta and near the church of S. Marcello,
which was a
station of the cursus publicus, and where certain goods
subject to
import duty (anabolicae species, Hist. Aug. Aurel. 45)
were received and
unpacked (HJ 462;
Mitt. 1896, 320-I;
LPD i. 164, 166;
LP
xxxi. 3;
Acta SS. 16 Jan. p. 369; HCh 308;
RE iii. 1782, s.v.
Catabolenses; cf.
DOMUS LUCINAE).