PORTA MINUCIA
a gate that is said to have derived its name from its
proximity to a shrine or altar (sacellum, ara) of Minucius
(Minutus) quem
deum putabant (Fest. 122, 147). Nothing is known of any such god, and
the name may have arisen from confusion with that of Minucius Augurinus
whose monument (see
STATUA MINUCII) was outside the porta Trigemina
(WR 245;
Rosch. ii. 3011-3012). By some the porta Minucia is regarded
as another name for the Trigemina (Jord. i. I. 236; Pais, Storia di Roma
i. I. 546, who regards Minucius as an epithet of Hercules; Merlin 124-125).