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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, GENS FLAVIA, TEMPLUM (search)
present Via Venti Settembre, ad Malum Punicum, the modern Via delle Quattro Fontane (Suet. loc. cit. ; Mart. ix. 20. I; BC 1889, 383; RhM 1894, 399-400; Mitt. 1891, 120). It was struck by lightning in 96 A.D. (Suet. Dom. 15); probably enlarged by Claudius Gothicus in 268-270 A.D. (Hist. Aug. cit.: PBS iii. 242-243, though the theory here advanced in regard to the Flavian date of the round reliefs of the ARCH OF CONSTANTINE (q.v.) is not now generally accepted), and was standing in the fourth century (Not. Reg. VI). It was probably round in shape (Mart. ix. 3. 12, 34. 2; Stat. Silv. iv. 3. 19; Altm. 88), and was intended to serve as the mausoleum of the Flavian dynasty. Domitian's ashes were placed there (Suet. Dom. 17), and it is probable that he had, before his death, removed thither the ashes of his father and brother (Mart. ix. 34. 7; Stat. Silv. v. I. 240-241; Hirschfeld, Berl. Sitz.-Ber. 1886, 1158-1159=Kleine Schriften 463-464). It was a magnificent structure, and evidently r
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HERCULES CUSTOS, AEDES (search)
temple must have been erected before 218, probably about the time of the erection of the circus Flaminius in 221, of which Hercules was regarded as the guardian. The day of dedication is recorded in the calendars (Fast. Venus. pr. Non. Iun., CIL i'. p. 221: Herc(uli) Magn(o) Custod(i); Vail. pr. Id. Aug. (undoubtedly an error), CIL i. p. 240, 324: Herculi Magno Custodi in circo Maximo; Filoc. pr. Non. Iun., CIL i. p. 319: ludi in Minicia-sic). This last is interpreted to mean that in the fourth century the cult festival was still celebrated, and that ' in Minicia' implies that the temple was within (or close to ?) the PORTICUS MINUCIA (q.v.), that is, at the west end of the circus Maximus. With this location agrees the statement of Ovid (vid. sup.) that this temple was at the opposite end of the circus from the temple of BELLONA (q.v.), for the latter was probably north-east of the circus. In the garden of the church of S. Nicola ai Cesarini, The church has now been demolished, and the
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HERCULIS INVICTI ARA MAXIMA (search)
n. viii. 104), and within the line of the Palatine pomerium at one corner (Tac. Ann. xii. 24). It stood, therefore, in the eastern part of the forum Boarium, near the carceres of the circus, and probably very near to the temple of HERCULES VICTOR (q.v.), that is, at the north-east corner of the Piazza di Bocca della Verita, north of S. Maria in Cosmedin (LS iii. 41-42; DAP 2. vi. 274). This altar was burned in the fire of Nero (Tac. Ann. xv. 41), but was restored, and was standing in the fourth century (Fest. Serv. locc. citt.). To the second, third, and fourth centuries belong several inscriptions, dedicated by praetors to Hercules Invictus (CIL vi. 312-315, 317-318; 316 Alcide ; 319 Hercules Victor), which were found near by when the ruins of the round temple, identified with that of HERCULES VICTOR (q.v.), were destroyed during the pontificate of Sixtus IV, and it is not certain whether these inscriptions belonged to the temple or ara, or both. No traces of the altar itself have eve
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HONOS ET VIRTUS, AEDES (search)
rt of which had disappeared in Livy's time (Liv. xxv. 40. 3 : quorum perexigua pars comparet). It also contained the ancient bronze shrine, supposed to date from the time of Numa, the aedicula Camenarum, which was afterwards placed in the temple of Hercules and the Muses (Serv. Aen.'i. 8). This temple was restored by Vespasian and decorated by two Roman artists, Cornelius Pinus and Attius Priscus (Plin. NH xxxv. 120). For these names cf. CIL vi. 12745, 16239. It is last mentioned in the fourth century (Not. Reg. I). It stood ad portam Capenam (Liv. xxv. 40. 3; xxix. II. 13; Mon. Anc. 2. 29), evidently outside the gate but very near to it (Not. Reg. I; Liv. xxvi. 32. 4: Hiero... cum ingrediens Romam in vestibule urbis prope in porta spolia patriae suae visurus), and probably on the north side of the via Appia; cf. supra, 19. The statement that Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus, censor in 304 B.C. when he established the transvectio equitum, caused the procession of equites to start at the
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HORTI ACILIORUM (search)
which belonged to the Acilii Glabriones in the second century A.D. (CIL vi. 623); their exact limits are not known, but the remains that have been found are held to indicate that they may have extended from the Trinita de' Monti ' beyond the slopes of the hill into the Villa Borghese, and on the east as far as the Porta Pinciana' (LS ii. 131; iii. 101-3; iv. 14; BC 1891, 132-155; 1914, 376; LR 421-429; NA 1904 (May I); HJ 446; P1. 481-482). These horti belonged to the gens Pincia in the fourth century, and then to Anicia Faltonia Proba and her husband Petronius Probus (CIL vi. I 75 I) Cf. also ib. 754 ; an inscription set up to her as' Amnios Pincios Aniciosque decoranti ': see Mitt. 1889, 269; 1892, 314. but became imperial property afterwards (cf. DOMUS PINCIANA). They were enclosed on the north, west and east by supporting walls, built along the slope of the hill (Homo, Aurelien 240 ff.) ; the wall on the east and north was incorporated by Aurelian in his line of defence, and part
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HORTI CAESARIS (1) (search)
HORTI CAESARIS (1) the gardens of Julius Caesar that were probably just outside the porta Collina. They are mentioned in the fourth century (Obseq. 71) under date of 17 B.C., and probably by Cassius Dio (xlii. 26. 3) under date of 47 B.C. They appear to have fallen into the possession of Sallust (Ps. Cic. resp. in Sail. 19), and may have formed part of the horti Sallustiani (HJ 430; RE viii. 2483).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HORTI PALLANTIANI (search)
HORTI PALLANTIANI gardens on the Esquiline mentioned three times by Frontinus (de aq. 19, 20, 69), existing in the fourth century (Not. Reg. V; cf. FUR 57 ?), and supposed to have been laid out by Pallas, the rich freedman of Claudius. According to Frontinus the point where the rivus Herculaneus branched off from the aqua Marcia, about 175 metres south of the porta Tiburtina, and the end of the Claudia and Anio novus, about 250 metres north of the porta Praenestina, were behind these gardens. They must, therefore, have occupied a site very near the middle of the triangle formed by the via Tiburtina vetus, the via Praenestina-Labicana, and the line of the aqua Marcia, i.e. somewhat south of the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele (cf. BC 1874, 53-54; LA 248; HJ 358).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, HORTI SALLUSTIANI (search)
in Numidia, and they probably remained in the family until the time of Tiberius (supra, p. 216, n. i ; CIL vi. 9005), when they became imperial property (Tac. Ann. xiii. 47; CIL vi. 5863, 8670-8672; xv. 7249-7250; Dig. xxx. 39. 8), but they seem to have been open to some, if not to the general public (Ps. Sen. ad Paul. I). They were a favourite resort of Vespasian (Cass. Dio lxv. 10. 4) and Aurelian (Hist. Aug. Aurel. 49). Nerva died here (Chron. 146), and they were still a resort in the fourth century (Incert. auct. Panegyr. in Const. 14 (ed. Teubn. 300, 26)). In 410 they were sacked by the Goths under Alaric (Procop. B. Vand. i. 2). In these gardens was a conditorium, or sepulchral vault (Plin. NH vii. 75), and aporticus Miliarensis (Hist. Aug. Aurel. 49), built by Aurelian, in which he exercised himself and his horses. Miliarensis should mean a thousand paces long, and a porticus of that length must have run about the gardens in various directions. v. Domaszewski (SHA 1916, 7. A, 13
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, IANUS QUADRIFRONS (search)
eparation between the forum Boarium and the Velabrum. It consists of four piers connected by quadripartite vaulting, and is 12 metres square and 16 high. The arches themselves are 10.60 metres high and 5.70 wide. Round all four sides run two rows of niches for statues, forty-eight in all, of which sixteen are unfinished. The keystones of the arches were sculptured, and the figures of Minerva and Roma are still visible on the north and east sides. The structure is of late date, third or fourth century, It is attributed to a period a little before Diocletian in Zeitschr. f. Gesch. d. Archit. viii. (1924), 74, as against the attribution to the second third of the fourth century in Toeb. and may perhaps be identified with the arcus divi Constantini in Region XI (Not., om. Cur.; DAP 2. vi. 261; Jord. i. 2. 471). For a detailed description of this arch, see PAS ii. 80; Toeb. i. 131-135; ZA 258-261 ; for illustrations, Baumeister, Denkm. iii. pl. Ixxx. 6, lxxxi. 8; Canina, Edifizi, iv. 253
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, IUPPITER HELIOPOLITANUS, TEMPLUM (search)
eratorum Antonini et Commodi. This Gaionas was already known from his sepulchral inscription (IG xiv. 1512; CIL vi. 32316), where he is mentioned as ki/stiber and asdei/pnois krei/vas polla\ met) eu)frosu/nhs. A slab (mensa) with a dedication to Iuppiter Heliopolitanus pro salute et reditu, et Victoria of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus (176 A.D., contemporary with the Antonine column and recording the same victories) erected by the same Gaionas, was found used as building material in the fourth century temple, as well as another undated dedication. And, agreeably to this, one of the recently discovered inscriptions speaks of him as deipnokri/ths ; see Cumont in CRA 1917, 275-284, who interprets the difficult text desmo\s o(/pws kratero/s qu=ma qeoi=s pare/xoi, o(\n dh\ *gaiwna=s deipnokri/ths e)/qeto, which is carved on a marble slab (with a hole in the centre communicating with a cavity which extends behind the whole slab), by supposing that the slab was placed vertically at the end o
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