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BASILICA PORCIA—BELLONA, AEDES
the temple, as it is not mentioned after that date (CIL vi. 2338, 2339 ;
DE i. 978 ; Thed. 145). The celeberrimum monumentum Opimi of
Cicero (pro Sest. 140) refers probably to both temple and basilica ;
celeberrimiLm (‘ much frequented,’ not ‘magnificent’) is contrasted with
his lonely tomb on the shore at Dyrrachium (CP 1917, 194).
Basilica Porcia : the first basilica in Rome, built for judicial and business
purposes by Cato in 184 b.c., in the face of much opposition (Liv. xxxix.
44 ; Ascon, in Mil. arg. 34 ; Plut. Cat. Mai. 19 ; Cat. Min. 5 ; de vir.
ill. 47). It stood a little west of the curia, In Lautumiis (q.v.), on ground
purchased by Cato and occupied by shops and two private houses, those
of Maenius and Titius. In it the tribunes held court. It was burned
in 52 b.c. with the curia of Sulla at the funeral of Clodius, and
probably totally destroyed, as there is no further mention of it (Jord,
i. 2. 344; Mitt. 1893, 84, 91 ; BC 1914, 107; Thed. 138-139).
Basilica Sempronia : erected in 170 b.c. by the censor Ti. Sempro-
nius Gracchus, behind the Tabernae Veteres (q.v.) and near the
statue of Vortumnus, on a site that had been occupied by the house of
Scipio Africanus and adjacent shops (Liv. xliv. 16). It stood therefore
at the point where the vicus Tuscus entered the forum. Nothing is
known of the history of the building, but it must have been destroyed
when the Julia was built.
Basilica Sicinini : see Sicininum.
Basilica Ulpia : see Forum Traiani.
Basilica Vascellaria : see Basilica Argentaria.
Basilica Vestilia : mentioned only in the Appendix to the Regionary
Catalogue, where one MS. reads vestiaria and there are other variants.
The hostilia of Pol. Silv. (545) is regarded as a corruption, and whatever
the true reading may be, the structure was probably used for trading in
the kind of goods specified in the name (Jord. ii. 220).
Basis Q. Marci Regis : the pedestal of a statue of 0. Marcius Rex, erected
on the Capitoline behind the temple of Juppiter, on which a diploma
honestae missionis was fastened in 64 a.d. (CIL iii. p. 846, No. III).
Bellona, aedes (templum, Liv. x. 19; Fest. 33; Ov. Fast. vi. 205): the
temple of Bellona, a goddess who probably represented that characteristic
of Mars which was displayed in the fierceness of battle frenzy (WR
137-138 ; AR 1909, 70, 71). It was vowed by Appius Claudius Caecus
in 296 b.c. (Liv. x. 19. 17 ; Plin. NH xxxv. 12; Ov. Fast. vi. 201-204;
CIL i2. p. 192 (Elog. x.)=xi. 1827), and dedicated a few years later on
June 3rd (Ov. Fast. vi. 201). No traces, architectural or epigraphic, of
the temple have been found, and its site is not known with certainty ;
but it was in the campus Martius, in circo Flaminio (Fast. Ven. ad in non.
Iun. ; CIL i2. p. 319; Mirabil. 23; BC 1914, 383-385), probably about
half-way between the north-east corner of the circus Flaminius and the
BASILICA PORCIA—BELLONA, AEDES
the temple, as it is not mentioned after that date (CIL vi. 2338, 2339 ;
DE i. 978 ; Thed. 145). The celeberrimum monumentum Opimi of
Cicero (pro Sest. 140) refers probably to both temple and basilica ;
celeberrimiLm (‘ much frequented,’ not ‘magnificent’) is contrasted with
his lonely tomb on the shore at Dyrrachium (CP 1917, 194).
Basilica Porcia : the first basilica in Rome, built for judicial and business
purposes by Cato in 184 b.c., in the face of much opposition (Liv. xxxix.
44 ; Ascon, in Mil. arg. 34 ; Plut. Cat. Mai. 19 ; Cat. Min. 5 ; de vir.
ill. 47). It stood a little west of the curia, In Lautumiis (q.v.), on ground
purchased by Cato and occupied by shops and two private houses, those
of Maenius and Titius. In it the tribunes held court. It was burned
in 52 b.c. with the curia of Sulla at the funeral of Clodius, and
probably totally destroyed, as there is no further mention of it (Jord,
i. 2. 344; Mitt. 1893, 84, 91 ; BC 1914, 107; Thed. 138-139).
Basilica Sempronia : erected in 170 b.c. by the censor Ti. Sempro-
nius Gracchus, behind the Tabernae Veteres (q.v.) and near the
statue of Vortumnus, on a site that had been occupied by the house of
Scipio Africanus and adjacent shops (Liv. xliv. 16). It stood therefore
at the point where the vicus Tuscus entered the forum. Nothing is
known of the history of the building, but it must have been destroyed
when the Julia was built.
Basilica Sicinini : see Sicininum.
Basilica Ulpia : see Forum Traiani.
Basilica Vascellaria : see Basilica Argentaria.
Basilica Vestilia : mentioned only in the Appendix to the Regionary
Catalogue, where one MS. reads vestiaria and there are other variants.
The hostilia of Pol. Silv. (545) is regarded as a corruption, and whatever
the true reading may be, the structure was probably used for trading in
the kind of goods specified in the name (Jord. ii. 220).
Basis Q. Marci Regis : the pedestal of a statue of 0. Marcius Rex, erected
on the Capitoline behind the temple of Juppiter, on which a diploma
honestae missionis was fastened in 64 a.d. (CIL iii. p. 846, No. III).
Bellona, aedes (templum, Liv. x. 19; Fest. 33; Ov. Fast. vi. 205): the
temple of Bellona, a goddess who probably represented that characteristic
of Mars which was displayed in the fierceness of battle frenzy (WR
137-138 ; AR 1909, 70, 71). It was vowed by Appius Claudius Caecus
in 296 b.c. (Liv. x. 19. 17 ; Plin. NH xxxv. 12; Ov. Fast. vi. 201-204;
CIL i2. p. 192 (Elog. x.)=xi. 1827), and dedicated a few years later on
June 3rd (Ov. Fast. vi. 201). No traces, architectural or epigraphic, of
the temple have been found, and its site is not known with certainty ;
but it was in the campus Martius, in circo Flaminio (Fast. Ven. ad in non.
Iun. ; CIL i2. p. 319; Mirabil. 23; BC 1914, 383-385), probably about
half-way between the north-east corner of the circus Flaminius and the