. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . hat assumption seem to be itsvicinity to the supposed temple of Fortuna description (xxxiii. 27) of the two triumphalarches erected in the Forum Boarium before the twotemples appearing to indicate that they lay closetogether. With regard to the probability of this little church ROMA. having bean the temple of Podicitia Patricia, it illicit be objected that there was in fact no suchtemple, and that we arc to assume only a statuewith an altar (Sachse, Gesch. MA. tlie same chapter designates it as a tewjihnn ( QuantBe Virginia, et pat
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . hat assumption seem to be itsvicinity to the supposed temple of Fortuna description (xxxiii. 27) of the two triumphalarches erected in the Forum Boarium before the twotemples appearing to indicate that they lay closetogether. With regard to the probability of this little church ROMA. having bean the temple of Podicitia Patricia, it illicit be objected that there was in fact no suchtemple, and that we arc to assume only a statuewith an altar (Sachse, Gesch. MA. tlie same chapter designates it as a tewjihnn ( QuantBe Virginia, et patriciam et pndicam in PatriciaePndicitiae templnm ingreesam vcro gloriaretur);and Iropertius (ii. 6. 25) also uses the same ap-pellation with regard to it. On the other handBome have fixed on S. Maria in Cosmcdin as thesite of this temple, but with little appearance of. TEMPLE OF PfDK ITIA PATRICIA. Becker seeks in the church justnamed the temple of Fortuna built by ServiusTullius in tne Forum Boarium. The church appearsto have been erected on the remains of a considerabletemple, of which eight columns are still perceptible,built into the walls. This opinion may be as pro-bable as any other on the subject; but as on the onehand, from our utter ignorance of the site of thetemple, we are unable to refute it, so on the otherwe must confess that Beckers long and labouredargument on the subject is far from being convincing( Handb. p. 481, seq.). The site of the ofMates Matcta is equally uncertain. All that weknow about it is that it was founded by ServiusTullius, and restored by Camillus after the conquestof Veii (Liv. v. 17), and that it lay somewhere onthe Forum Boarium (Ovid, Fast. vi. 471). If wewere inclined to conjecture, we should place both it andthe temple of Fortuna near the northern boundaryof that forum; as Livys description of the roc
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