PORTICUS AEMILIA
(a) extra portam Trigeminam, built by the aediles
L. Aemilius Lepidus and L. Aemilius Paullus in 193 B.C. (Liv.xxxv. o1. 12),
and restored in 174 by the censors Q. Fulvius Flaccus and A. Postumius
Albinus (
Liv. xli. 27. 8). Livy also says (ib.) of these censors-
et extra
eandem portam in Aventinum porticum silice straverunt et eo publico
ab aede Veneris fecerunt, which seems to mean that they paved another
porticus running from the porta Trigemina to the temple of
VENUS
OBSEQUENS (q.v.), on the slope of the Aventine, near the lower end of the
circus Maximus. Five years earlier, in 179 B.C., the censor M. Fulvius
Flaccus is said to have contracted for a
porticus extra portam Trigeminam
(
Liv. xl. 51. 6). What connection these had with each other, or with the
Aemilia, is unknown (HJ 173, 174; Merlin 251). ' For remains attributed
to this building, see
EMPORIUM.
(b) A porta Fontinali ad Martis aram (Liv. xxxv. io. 12) built at the
same time as (a). Its exact location depends upon that of the
PORTA
FONTINALIS (q.v.) and of the
ARA MARTIS (q.v.), and in any case would
not be far north of the Capitoline hill, nor far from the line of the via
Lata (
CP 1908, 66-73).
