Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ugh aprobable inference, is by no means an absolutelynecessary one, since Livy may be merely indicatingthe locality as it existed in his own time. Theformer of these temples, or that of Hercules Trium-phalis, seems to be the one mentioned by Macrobius\Sat. iu. 6) under the name of Hercules Victor;and it appears from the same passage that therewas another with the same appellation, though pro-bably of less importance, at the Porta these we hear of a Hercules Invictus bythe Circus Maximus {Fast. Amitern; Prid. ^, and of another
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ugh aprobable inference, is by no means an absolutelynecessary one, since Livy may be merely indicatingthe locality as it existed in his own time. Theformer of these temples, or that of Hercules Trium-phalis, seems to be the one mentioned by Macrobius\Sat. iu. 6) under the name of Hercules Victor;and it appears from the same passage that therewas another with the same appellation, though pro-bably of less importance, at the Porta these we hear of a Hercules Invictus bythe Circus Maximus {Fast. Amitern; Prid. ^, and of another at the same place in aedePompeii Magni (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 57), whichseems to refer to some Aedes Herculis built orrestored by Pompey, though we hear nothing moreof any such temple. Hence there would appearto have been three or four temples of Herculesin the Forum Boarium. The conjecture of Beckerseems not improbable that the remains of a roundtemple now existing at the church of S. Maria delSole, commonly supposed to have belonged to a. TEMPLE OF nERCULE3. 814 EOMA. temple of Vesta, may have been that of Hercules,and the little temple near it, now the churcli of Egiziaca, that of Pudicitia Patricia. { 478, seq.) This question is, however, in some degree con-nacted with another respecting the sites of the Tem-ples OF FoRTUNA and Mater Matuta. CaninaiJentifies the remains of the round temple at thechurch of S. Maria del Sole with the temple ofMater Matuta ; whilst the little neighbouring temple,now the church of S. Maria Egiziaca, he holds tohave been that of Fortuna Virilis. His chief rea-son for maintaining the latter opinion is the followingpassage of Dionysius, which points, he thinks, to atemple of Fortuna Virilis, built by Servius Tulliusclose to the banks of the Tiber, a position whichwould answer to that of S. Maria Egiziaca; Kalvaovs Svo icaTaaKivaffdnevos TvxV^, t^ h-^ ^^ayopa rr) KaAov/xivr] Boapia, rov 5 erepov iirlToTs vidffi Tov Tfgepioy, V AvSpela
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