CAPRAE PALUS
(Capreae, Ov.
Fast. ii. 491): the pool or
swamp in the campus
Martius where Romulus is said to have been snatched from
the sight of
the Romans and carried up to heaven (
Liv. i. 16. I; Flor. i.
I;
Solin.
i. 20; et al.). It is called
Αἰγὸς ἕλος by Greek
writers (Plut. Rom. 27;
Numa 2; Camil. 33;
Zonar. vii. 4), and probably extended
from the
lowest part of the campus Martius, the site of the
Pantheon, towards
the Tiber, although its actual limits cannot now be
determined (HJ 473-4),
and it should perhaps be placed nearer the
AEDICULA
CAPRARIA and
VICUS CAPRARIUS (Eranos, 1923, 120-122). De Rossi's
attempt (
BC 1883, 254-258) to place it near the via Nomentana is
certainly mistaken
(
PBS iii. 44).