. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ect 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 roccasioned by the fire in that quarter seems to indicatethat they lay at no great dis
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ect 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 roccasioned by the fire in that quarter seems to indicatethat they lay at no great distance within the PortaCarmentalis (xxiv. 47, xxv. 7). The later historyof both these temples is unknown. In the Forum Boarium, near the mouth of theCloaca Maxima, was also the place called Doliola,mentioned in the former part of this article as re-garded with religious awe on account of some sacredrelics having been bnried there, either during theattack of the Gauls, or at a still more ancient(Liv. v. 40; v. § 157, Mull.) When. CLOACA MAXIMA, the Tiber is low, the mouth of the Cloaca Maximamay be seen from the newly erected iron bridge con-necting the Ponte Rotto with the left bank. The placecalled Ad Busta Gallica where it is said that thebodies of the Gauls were burnt who died during orafter the siege of the Capitol, has also been assumedto have been in this neighbourhood because it ismentioned by Varro {lb.) between the Aequimeliumand the Doliola (cf. Liv. v. 48, xxii. 14). But suchan assumption is altogether arbitrary, as Varrofollows no topographical order in naming , we shall mention two objects named in theNotiiia, which seem to have stood on the ForumBoarium. These are the Apollo Coelispex, and theHercules OlivarilS, apparently two of those which Augustus dedicated in the different (Handb. p. 493) places them in the Vela-brum, and thinks that the epithet of Olivarius wasderived from the oil-market, which was establishedin
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