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ARCUS OCTAVII—ARCUS POMPEII
church of S. Maria in via Lata, and was destroyed by Innocent VIII
(1488-1492). The last remains disappeared in 1523 (LS i. 217). The
fragments of a relief found at this point in the sixteenth century, and now
in the Villa Medici, probably came from this arch. The inscription—
votis x votis xx (CIL vi. 31383)—suggests that on the arch of Con-
stantine. If this was the arch of Diocletian, and the inscription belongs
to it, it was probably built in 303-304 (BC 1895, 46 ; Jord. ii. 102, 417 ;
HJ 469 ; PBS iii. 271 ; Matz-Duhn, Antike Bildwerke 3525).
Arcus Octavii : an arch on the Palatine which Augustus is said to have
erected in honour of his father (Plin. NH xxxvi. 36 : Lysiae opus quod in
Palatio super arcum divus Augustus honori Octavi patris sui dicavit in
aedicula columnis adornata, id est quadriga currusque et Apollo ac Diana
ex uno lapide). It has been conjectured (BC 1883, 190) that this arch
formed the entrance to the sacred precinct of the temple of Apollo
(q.v.), but this seems impossible of proof. Some fragments found
in the middle of the sixteenth century may have belonged to this arch
(Vacca, Mem. 76). The aedicula with a statue on the top of the arch
was without parallel in Rome, so far as we know (Gardthausen, Augustus
und seine Zeit i. 962 ; Richter 147 ; HJ 69 ; Jex-Blake and Sellers,
The Elder Pliny’s Chapters on the History of Art 208).
Arcus Panis Aurei (in Capitolio) : see Arcus M. Aurelii.
Arcus Pietatis :* mentioned only in the Mirabilia (23) and the Anon.
Magi. It stood on the north side of the Pantheon, perhaps in the
line of the enclosing porticus. Htilsen (RAP ii. 19 ; cf. HCh 437) places
it close to the church of the Maddalena, connecting it with the wall
enclosing the precinct of the Templum Matidiae (q.v.). Rushforth
(JRS 1919, 37-40, 53-54) conjectures that it is the arch of Augustus
described in the twelfth century by Magister Gregorius as bearing the
inscription ‘ ob orbem devictum Romano regno restitutum et r. p. per
Augustum receptam populus Romanus hoc opus condidit,’ and mentioned
by Dio Cassius (li. 19) as decreed to be set up in the forum in 29 b.c.
(but not actually erected) and afterwards placed here. The inscription,
though it cannot be a literal transcript, may be the echo of a genuine
one (see Arcus Augusti). A relief on this arch is said (Anon. Magi.)
to have represented a woman asking a favour of Trajan,1 and about this
scene a legend was woven, one form of which appears in Dante (Purg.
x. 73 ff.). This arch cannot be identified with any of those known to
us from other sources (AJA 1904, 34 ; HJ 590 ; Boni in Nuova Antologia,
1st Nov. 1906, 36).
Arcus Pompeii : mentioned by Magister Gregorius in the twelfth century.
Est enim arcus Triumphalis Magni Pompeii, ualde mirandus, quern
1 Boni believes that the legend was inspired by a relief in the arch of Constantine—
that showing the entry of Marcus Aurelius into Rome, with a recumbent female figure
representing a road.
ARCUS OCTAVII—ARCUS POMPEII
church of S. Maria in via Lata, and was destroyed by Innocent VIII
(1488-1492). The last remains disappeared in 1523 (LS i. 217). The
fragments of a relief found at this point in the sixteenth century, and now
in the Villa Medici, probably came from this arch. The inscription—
votis x votis xx (CIL vi. 31383)—suggests that on the arch of Con-
stantine. If this was the arch of Diocletian, and the inscription belongs
to it, it was probably built in 303-304 (BC 1895, 46 ; Jord. ii. 102, 417 ;
HJ 469 ; PBS iii. 271 ; Matz-Duhn, Antike Bildwerke 3525).
Arcus Octavii : an arch on the Palatine which Augustus is said to have
erected in honour of his father (Plin. NH xxxvi. 36 : Lysiae opus quod in
Palatio super arcum divus Augustus honori Octavi patris sui dicavit in
aedicula columnis adornata, id est quadriga currusque et Apollo ac Diana
ex uno lapide). It has been conjectured (BC 1883, 190) that this arch
formed the entrance to the sacred precinct of the temple of Apollo
(q.v.), but this seems impossible of proof. Some fragments found
in the middle of the sixteenth century may have belonged to this arch
(Vacca, Mem. 76). The aedicula with a statue on the top of the arch
was without parallel in Rome, so far as we know (Gardthausen, Augustus
und seine Zeit i. 962 ; Richter 147 ; HJ 69 ; Jex-Blake and Sellers,
The Elder Pliny’s Chapters on the History of Art 208).
Arcus Panis Aurei (in Capitolio) : see Arcus M. Aurelii.
Arcus Pietatis :* mentioned only in the Mirabilia (23) and the Anon.
Magi. It stood on the north side of the Pantheon, perhaps in the
line of the enclosing porticus. Htilsen (RAP ii. 19 ; cf. HCh 437) places
it close to the church of the Maddalena, connecting it with the wall
enclosing the precinct of the Templum Matidiae (q.v.). Rushforth
(JRS 1919, 37-40, 53-54) conjectures that it is the arch of Augustus
described in the twelfth century by Magister Gregorius as bearing the
inscription ‘ ob orbem devictum Romano regno restitutum et r. p. per
Augustum receptam populus Romanus hoc opus condidit,’ and mentioned
by Dio Cassius (li. 19) as decreed to be set up in the forum in 29 b.c.
(but not actually erected) and afterwards placed here. The inscription,
though it cannot be a literal transcript, may be the echo of a genuine
one (see Arcus Augusti). A relief on this arch is said (Anon. Magi.)
to have represented a woman asking a favour of Trajan,1 and about this
scene a legend was woven, one form of which appears in Dante (Purg.
x. 73 ff.). This arch cannot be identified with any of those known to
us from other sources (AJA 1904, 34 ; HJ 590 ; Boni in Nuova Antologia,
1st Nov. 1906, 36).
Arcus Pompeii : mentioned by Magister Gregorius in the twelfth century.
Est enim arcus Triumphalis Magni Pompeii, ualde mirandus, quern
1 Boni believes that the legend was inspired by a relief in the arch of Constantine—
that showing the entry of Marcus Aurelius into Rome, with a recumbent female figure
representing a road.