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ARGEORUM SACRARIA
RE ii. 689-700 = Wissowa, Ges. Abh. 211-230; Roscher i. 496-500;
WS 1911, Ι55Ί72; Warde Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman
People, 54 ff., 321 ff. ; Rose, Quaestiones Romanae of Plutarch, 98-101
(for a very early origin), and Primitive Culture in Italy, 103 (for an
explanation of it as the throwing of the corn spirit into the water).
Varro (LL v. 45-54) mentions fourteen of these sacraria, quoting in the
case of twelve from what was evidently the official record of the pontiffs
that directed the order of the procession from one to another. This gives,
for each region, first the name of the hill or distinctive locality, then the
number of the shrine, and finally further topographical details, some of
which date from the time of introduction of the ceremony and some of
them from later periods. The two that are not mentioned in this formal
manner are the first and sixth of the regio Suburana respectively on the
mons Caelius and in the Subura, i.e. the Sucusa (q.v.), and not to be
exactly located. The others appear as follows (although the text is
far from certain in-several places).
Regio Suburana—
No. 4. Ceroliensis quarticeps circa Minervium qua in Caelio monte
itur in tabernola est—that is, on the part of the Caelian called Ceroliensis,
near the temple of Minerva, and w tabernola (a phrase of doubtful
meaning, cf. No. 3 of regio Esquilina below ; HJ 227). This station
therefore was on the northern slope of the Caelian, near the temple of
Minerva Capta, probably a little north-west of the present church of
SS. Quattro Coronati.
Re gio Esquilina—
No. I. Oppius mons princeps Equilis cis lucum fagutalem sinistra
via secundum merum est1—that is, on the Fagutal, near the top of the
modern Via della Polveriera (HJ 256, 257).
No. 3. Oppius mons terticeps cis lucum Esquilinum dexterior via
in tabernola est—that is, just east of the site afterwards occupied by the
thermae Traianae, near the modern Via Mecenate.
No. 4. Oppius mons quarticeps cis lucum Esquilinum via dexterior 2
in figlinis est—probably north of No. 3, near the edge of the hill, and the
modern church of S. Martino ai Monti (cf. HJ 265).
No. 5. Cespius mons quinticeps cis lucum Poetelium Esquiliis est.
As the location of the lucus Poetelius is unknown, the approximate site
of this sacrarium cannot be fixed.
No. 6. Cespius mons sexticeps apud aedem Iunonis Lucinae ubi
aeditumus habere solet. . . . The temple of Juno Lucina (q.v.) was
probably near the top of the southern slope of the Cispius, just above the
present Via dello· Statuto.
1 The MSS. have lacum for lucum (see p. 205). Spengel has ouls for cis, quae for zna,
moerum for merum.
2 Dexteriorem, Spengel.
ARGEORUM SACRARIA
RE ii. 689-700 = Wissowa, Ges. Abh. 211-230; Roscher i. 496-500;
WS 1911, Ι55Ί72; Warde Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman
People, 54 ff., 321 ff. ; Rose, Quaestiones Romanae of Plutarch, 98-101
(for a very early origin), and Primitive Culture in Italy, 103 (for an
explanation of it as the throwing of the corn spirit into the water).
Varro (LL v. 45-54) mentions fourteen of these sacraria, quoting in the
case of twelve from what was evidently the official record of the pontiffs
that directed the order of the procession from one to another. This gives,
for each region, first the name of the hill or distinctive locality, then the
number of the shrine, and finally further topographical details, some of
which date from the time of introduction of the ceremony and some of
them from later periods. The two that are not mentioned in this formal
manner are the first and sixth of the regio Suburana respectively on the
mons Caelius and in the Subura, i.e. the Sucusa (q.v.), and not to be
exactly located. The others appear as follows (although the text is
far from certain in-several places).
Regio Suburana—
No. 4. Ceroliensis quarticeps circa Minervium qua in Caelio monte
itur in tabernola est—that is, on the part of the Caelian called Ceroliensis,
near the temple of Minerva, and w tabernola (a phrase of doubtful
meaning, cf. No. 3 of regio Esquilina below ; HJ 227). This station
therefore was on the northern slope of the Caelian, near the temple of
Minerva Capta, probably a little north-west of the present church of
SS. Quattro Coronati.
Re gio Esquilina—
No. I. Oppius mons princeps Equilis cis lucum fagutalem sinistra
via secundum merum est1—that is, on the Fagutal, near the top of the
modern Via della Polveriera (HJ 256, 257).
No. 3. Oppius mons terticeps cis lucum Esquilinum dexterior via
in tabernola est—that is, just east of the site afterwards occupied by the
thermae Traianae, near the modern Via Mecenate.
No. 4. Oppius mons quarticeps cis lucum Esquilinum via dexterior 2
in figlinis est—probably north of No. 3, near the edge of the hill, and the
modern church of S. Martino ai Monti (cf. HJ 265).
No. 5. Cespius mons quinticeps cis lucum Poetelium Esquiliis est.
As the location of the lucus Poetelius is unknown, the approximate site
of this sacrarium cannot be fixed.
No. 6. Cespius mons sexticeps apud aedem Iunonis Lucinae ubi
aeditumus habere solet. . . . The temple of Juno Lucina (q.v.) was
probably near the top of the southern slope of the Cispius, just above the
present Via dello· Statuto.
1 The MSS. have lacum for lucum (see p. 205). Spengel has ouls for cis, quae for zna,
moerum for merum.
2 Dexteriorem, Spengel.