FICUS
OLEA
VITIS
a fig tree, olive tree and vine, that stood in the
middle of the forum, near the lacus Curtius in the time of Pliny (
NH
xv. 78). The fig tree is represented on the reliefs, and with the vine
and olive may perhaps have grown in an open space about 4 metres
square (where the
STATUA MARSYAE (q.v.) also stood), between the
inscription of Naevius and the reliefs, where there are no traces of
pavement (
RE vi. 2148; Hilsen, Forum, Nachtrag 15-19; HC 150).
See
ROSTRA.