Ancient legends of Roman history . t withthis custom throughout Greece. At Cyprus were wor-shipped the images of Zeus *Edaruvaarj? ; at Epulone, thatof Zeus GTzXarTcpo-cotios, or cutter of entrails; in Achaia wasworshipped Deipneus, the eponym of dinners and of ban-quets; and for Attica, it will be sufficient to recall that atMunychia, near Athens, there was honored the statue ofAcratopotes, who symbolized the unmixed As theresult of similar statues representing divinities, which, intime, sank to the level of historical characters, there arose(as we have seen) the legends of Clcelia an
Ancient legends of Roman history . t withthis custom throughout Greece. At Cyprus were wor-shipped the images of Zeus *Edaruvaarj? ; at Epulone, thatof Zeus GTzXarTcpo-cotios, or cutter of entrails; in Achaia wasworshipped Deipneus, the eponym of dinners and of ban-quets; and for Attica, it will be sufficient to recall that atMunychia, near Athens, there was honored the statue ofAcratopotes, who symbolized the unmixed As theresult of similar statues representing divinities, which, intime, sank to the level of historical characters, there arose(as we have seen) the legends of Clcelia and of HoratiusCodes. We do not know what relation the lacus Serviliusbore to a statue of a hydra there erected by Agrippa. Incompensation, however, we have explicit- information con-cerning a statue of Minucius. This statue was approximately near the Porta Carmentalisand the Capitoline, though situated outside the Porta Tri-gemina at the northern extremity of the Themore ancient version of the honors conferred upon Mini. MINUCIUS AND MiELIUS 213 cius asserted that they were obtained through the favor ofthe senate, and not of the plebs. Furthermore, it mademention, not of .a .column surmounted by the statue of aman, but of a golden bull. Some authors have thoughtto recognize a picture of Minucius in the coins of theMinucii, which, in fact, represent a column at whose baseare two persons. The column itself is surmounted by ahuman figure. We must, however, duly consider the lion-heads that are to be seen by the side of the column. Byso doing, we shall recognize that the human figure repre-sents Hercules, whose temple was near the Porta Tri-gemina. The statements relating to the statue of Minuciusgive us, therefore, a new topographical element, somewhatdifferent from those hitherto examined. They provide us,indeed, with the most ancient elements of the myth. In the later versions of the story it is said that it wasMinucius who was rewarded for the denunciation of Spurius
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