MINERVA MEDICA
a temple on the Esquiline (Not. Reg. V), dating from
republican times (cf. Cic. de div. ii. 123:
sine medico medicinam dabit
Minerva), and referred to in two inscriptions (
CIL vi. 10133, 30980).
Its position in the Regionary Catalogue, between the campus Viminalis
and the temple of Isis Patricia, points to a site in the northern part of
Region V, but the discovery of hundreds of votive offerings-on one of
which is one of the two inscriptions (30980)-in the via Curva (now the
Via Carlo Botta), just west of the via Merulana, may mean that this
was its location (
BC 1887, 154-156, 192-200 ; I888, 124-125 ;
Mitt. 1889,
278; HJ 353;
Rosch. ii. 2989; Cons. 305-312 and reff.). Some tufa
walls, resembling favissae, were also found here. For the circular
building wrongly so called, see
NYMPHAEUM.
