PORTICUS TRI(UMPHI)
a porticus supposed to have stood near the porta
Triumphalis and the Saepta, forming perhaps a part of the latter, on the
evidence of two inscriptions recording ' porticus triumphi,' one near Rome
(
CIL vi. 29776) and the other at Baiae (
EE viii. 374), which were evidently
small private imitations of a public structure at Rome (
NS 1888, 709-714;
BC 1889, 355-358;
Mitt. 1889, 268; LR 475;
JRS 1921, 28-29). In
both of them the length is recorded, and the number of times necessary
to go and return in order to complete a mile (or in the second case a little
more). Cf. Atti Accad.
Nap. 1924, 123-136 (where 'porticus tri(plex) ' is
proposed);
NS 1926, 229;
CIL vi. 29774-29778.
For a similar inscription from Hadrian's Villa, relating to the so-called
Poikile (really a huge gestatio in modum circi), in which, however, the
name triumphi does not actually occur, see Jahrb. d.
Inst. 1895, 140,
and AA 234;
AA 1896, 47. The insistence on a mile (or a little more)
as a convenient measure for a walk (cf.
PORTICUS MILIARIA) does not imply that the original porticus Triumphi was a
mile long (though it may very well have been some fraction of a mile);
and it may therefore quite well have been wholly included in the Villa
Publica (Makin in JRS cit.).
