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BELLONA PULVINENSIS—BELLONA, SACELLUM 83
Petronia amnis. From it the senators heard the cries of the prisoners
whom Sulla massacred in the Villa publica (Plut. Sulla 30 ; Sen. de clem,
i. 12. 2 ; Cass. Dio, fr. 109. 5), and from the open area in front of it one
looked at the eastern end of the circus Flaminius (Ov. Fast. vi. 205, 209).
It was probably on the east side of the via Triumphalis and faced the east.
For a suggestive but hardly convincing theory that this temple was at
the west end of the circus Flaminius, in the Piazza Paganica, see BC 1918,
120-126). See Addenda to Hercules Custos, aedes.
The senate met in this temple on various occasions (SC de Bacch.
CIL i2. 581 =x. 104; Cic. in Verr. v. 41; Plut. Sulla 7 ; Cass. Dio
1. 4), and most frequently, as the temple lay outside the pomerium, to
receive victorious generals on their return to Rome, and to vote upon their
claims for a triumph (Liv. xxvi. 21 ; xxviii. 9, 38 ; xxxi. 47 ; xxxiii. 22 ;
xxxvi. 39 ; xxxviii. 44; xxxix. 29 ; xli. 6 ; xlii. 9, 21, 28; Sall. frg. v.26 ; cf.
BC 1908, 138). Foreign ambassadors were also received here (Liv. xxx.
21, 40 ; xxxiii. 24 ; xlii. 36). The temple is mentioned in the second and
early third century (Plut. Cic. 13 ; Cass. Dio lxxi. 33 ; Hist. Aug. Sev. 22 ;
Placidus, p. 14 Deuerl. = CGL v. 8. 22, 50. 8). Near it was a Senaculum
(q.v.) or place of assembly for the senators (Fest. 347), and in front of it
stood the Columna Bellica (q.v.). Besides the literature already cited,
see RE iii. 254-255; viii. 572-573 ; Rosch. i. 775; HJ 552*554;
JRS 1921, 32.
Bellona Pulvinensis, aedes : a temple mentioned in three inscriptions
(CIL vi. 490, 2232, 2233 ; DE i. 175), the Cappadocian goddess Ma-
Bellona, whose worship seems to have displaced that of the Latin Bellona
during the empire. This temple was probably not built before the third
century, and its site is unknown. It had no connection with the pulvinar
of the circus Flaminius (HJ 554; WR 349-350 ; RE iii. 256; PBS
ix. 205-213, where CIL xiii. 7281, which refers to the restoration by the
hastiferi (a priestly college of Bellona) Civitatis Mattiacorum of a Mons
Vaticanus, is coupled with the existence of tombstones of her priests—the
two last inscriptions cited—on the via Triumphalis, to support the con-
jecture that this temple was situated somewhere on the montes Vaticani}.
Bellona Rufilia, aedes : a temple mentioned in one inscription of the
empire (CIL vi. 2234), evidently dedicated to the same Oriental deity
who was worshipped in the temple of Bellona Pulvinensis, and probably
built by some individual whose name is preserved in the epithet Rufilia.
This explanation is more reasonable than that which derives the adjective
from rufus, and interprets it as referring to the bloody character of the
cult. The exact location of this temple is not known, but it was perhaps
in Region III, as it stood ‘ ab Isis Serapis ’ (RE iii. 256 ; Rosch. i. 777 ;
WR 349)·
Bellona, sacellum : a shrine of Bellona on the Capitol, which was inad-
vertently pulled down by the magistrates when the neighbouring temple
Petronia amnis. From it the senators heard the cries of the prisoners
whom Sulla massacred in the Villa publica (Plut. Sulla 30 ; Sen. de clem,
i. 12. 2 ; Cass. Dio, fr. 109. 5), and from the open area in front of it one
looked at the eastern end of the circus Flaminius (Ov. Fast. vi. 205, 209).
It was probably on the east side of the via Triumphalis and faced the east.
For a suggestive but hardly convincing theory that this temple was at
the west end of the circus Flaminius, in the Piazza Paganica, see BC 1918,
120-126). See Addenda to Hercules Custos, aedes.
The senate met in this temple on various occasions (SC de Bacch.
CIL i2. 581 =x. 104; Cic. in Verr. v. 41; Plut. Sulla 7 ; Cass. Dio
1. 4), and most frequently, as the temple lay outside the pomerium, to
receive victorious generals on their return to Rome, and to vote upon their
claims for a triumph (Liv. xxvi. 21 ; xxviii. 9, 38 ; xxxi. 47 ; xxxiii. 22 ;
xxxvi. 39 ; xxxviii. 44; xxxix. 29 ; xli. 6 ; xlii. 9, 21, 28; Sall. frg. v.26 ; cf.
BC 1908, 138). Foreign ambassadors were also received here (Liv. xxx.
21, 40 ; xxxiii. 24 ; xlii. 36). The temple is mentioned in the second and
early third century (Plut. Cic. 13 ; Cass. Dio lxxi. 33 ; Hist. Aug. Sev. 22 ;
Placidus, p. 14 Deuerl. = CGL v. 8. 22, 50. 8). Near it was a Senaculum
(q.v.) or place of assembly for the senators (Fest. 347), and in front of it
stood the Columna Bellica (q.v.). Besides the literature already cited,
see RE iii. 254-255; viii. 572-573 ; Rosch. i. 775; HJ 552*554;
JRS 1921, 32.
Bellona Pulvinensis, aedes : a temple mentioned in three inscriptions
(CIL vi. 490, 2232, 2233 ; DE i. 175), the Cappadocian goddess Ma-
Bellona, whose worship seems to have displaced that of the Latin Bellona
during the empire. This temple was probably not built before the third
century, and its site is unknown. It had no connection with the pulvinar
of the circus Flaminius (HJ 554; WR 349-350 ; RE iii. 256; PBS
ix. 205-213, where CIL xiii. 7281, which refers to the restoration by the
hastiferi (a priestly college of Bellona) Civitatis Mattiacorum of a Mons
Vaticanus, is coupled with the existence of tombstones of her priests—the
two last inscriptions cited—on the via Triumphalis, to support the con-
jecture that this temple was situated somewhere on the montes Vaticani}.
Bellona Rufilia, aedes : a temple mentioned in one inscription of the
empire (CIL vi. 2234), evidently dedicated to the same Oriental deity
who was worshipped in the temple of Bellona Pulvinensis, and probably
built by some individual whose name is preserved in the epithet Rufilia.
This explanation is more reasonable than that which derives the adjective
from rufus, and interprets it as referring to the bloody character of the
cult. The exact location of this temple is not known, but it was perhaps
in Region III, as it stood ‘ ab Isis Serapis ’ (RE iii. 256 ; Rosch. i. 777 ;
WR 349)·
Bellona, sacellum : a shrine of Bellona on the Capitol, which was inad-
vertently pulled down by the magistrates when the neighbouring temple