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CASTOR
within the aedes. Another casa Romuli, probably a replica of the first,
stood on the Capitoline hill, perhaps in the area Capitolina (Vitr. ii. I. 5 ;
Sen. Contr. ii. 1.4 ; Conon, Narr. 48, where it is called Καλύ/^τί? . . .
'γνώρισμα της ΦαυστΰΑου διαίτης ην εκ φορυτών και νέων φραγάνων
συνιστώντες διασώζουσιν), but we know nothing of this after the year
78 a.d. (dipl. mil. a. 78, Rom.-Germ. Centralmuseum v. 181; Jord. i. 2. 51;
Rodocanachi, Capitole 44 ; HJ 39 ; RE iii. 1633, vi. 2091). (See Augura-
culum, with which one view identifies it; DAP 2. xii. 150-153.)
Castor, aedes : a temple of Castor (or the Dioscuri ?) in circo Flaminio,
that is, in Region IX, to which there are but two references. Its day of
dedication was 13th August (Hemerol. Allif. Amit. ad id. Aug. ; CIL i2.
p. 325 : Castori Polluci in Circo Flaminio ; Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 107),
and it is cited by Vitruvius (iv. 8. 4) as an example of an unusual type
(columnis adiectis dextra ac sinistra ad umeros pronai), like a temple of
Athene on the Acropolis at Athens, and another at Sunium (Gilb. iii.
76, 84).
Castor, aedes, templum :* the temple of Castor and Pollux at the south-
east corner of the forum area, close to the fons Iuturnae (Cic. de nat. deor.
iii. 13 ; Plut. Coriol. 3 ; Dionys. vi. 13 ; Mart. i. 70. 3 ; FUR fr. 20, cf.
NS 1882, 233). According to tradition, it was vowed in 499 b.c. by the
dictator Postumius, when the Dioscuri appeared on this spot after the
battle of Lake Regillus, and dedicated in 484 by the son of the dictator
who was appointed duumvir for this purpose (Liv. ii. 20. 12, 42. 5 ;
Dionys. loc. cit.). The day of dedication is given in the calendar as
27th January (Fast. Praen. CIL i2. p. 308 ; Fast. Verol. ap. NS 1923, 196 ;
Ov. Fast. i. 705-706), but by Livy (ii. 42. 5) as 15th July. The later may
be merely an error, or the date of the first temple only (see WR 216-217,
and literature there cited).
Its official name was aedes Castoris (Suet. Caes. 10 : ut enim geminis
fratribus aedes in foro constituta tantum Castoris vocaretur ; Cass. Dio
xxxvii. 8 ; and regularly in literature and inscriptions—Cic. pro Sest. 85 ;
in Verr. i. 131, 132, 133, 134; iii. 41 ; Liv. cit. and viii. II. 16; Fest.
246, 286 j1 Gell. xi. 3. 2 ; Mon. Anc. iv. 13 ; Plaut. Cure. 481 ; CIL vi.
363, 9U7, 9393, 9872, 10024—aedes Castorus (CIL i2. 582. 17) or Kastorus
(ib. 586. 1 ; cf. EE iii. 70) appear merely as variants of this), but we also
find aedes Castorum (Plin. NH x. 121 ; xxxiv. 23 ; Hist. Aug. Max. 16. 1 ;
Valer. 1.4; Not. Reg. VIII; Chron. 146), and Castoris et Pollucis2 (Fast.
1 = Lindsay 290, 362 : 257 (Paul, exc.) has ‘pro significat in, ut pro rostris, pro aede,
pro tribunali ’. Of the original text of Festus (256) nothing remains but the letters stor,
which may represent Ca^stor^is, and refer to the orator’s platform in front of the temple
(Rivista di Filologia, 1925, 105 ; Mem. Am. Acad. v. 79, n. 3).
2 The inversion of the two names which was supposed by Tomassetti, who (BC 1890,
209-219 ; cf. LR 274) wished to attribute to the temple a fragmentary inscription T.C. (i.e.
[Polluci e]t Cfastoril, for which cf. Jord. i. 2. 372 ; Mitt. 1891, 90 ; CIL vi. 30903), is
rendered impossible by the fact that the inscription cannot be fitted on to the building.
CASTOR
within the aedes. Another casa Romuli, probably a replica of the first,
stood on the Capitoline hill, perhaps in the area Capitolina (Vitr. ii. I. 5 ;
Sen. Contr. ii. 1.4 ; Conon, Narr. 48, where it is called Καλύ/^τί? . . .
'γνώρισμα της ΦαυστΰΑου διαίτης ην εκ φορυτών και νέων φραγάνων
συνιστώντες διασώζουσιν), but we know nothing of this after the year
78 a.d. (dipl. mil. a. 78, Rom.-Germ. Centralmuseum v. 181; Jord. i. 2. 51;
Rodocanachi, Capitole 44 ; HJ 39 ; RE iii. 1633, vi. 2091). (See Augura-
culum, with which one view identifies it; DAP 2. xii. 150-153.)
Castor, aedes : a temple of Castor (or the Dioscuri ?) in circo Flaminio,
that is, in Region IX, to which there are but two references. Its day of
dedication was 13th August (Hemerol. Allif. Amit. ad id. Aug. ; CIL i2.
p. 325 : Castori Polluci in Circo Flaminio ; Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 107),
and it is cited by Vitruvius (iv. 8. 4) as an example of an unusual type
(columnis adiectis dextra ac sinistra ad umeros pronai), like a temple of
Athene on the Acropolis at Athens, and another at Sunium (Gilb. iii.
76, 84).
Castor, aedes, templum :* the temple of Castor and Pollux at the south-
east corner of the forum area, close to the fons Iuturnae (Cic. de nat. deor.
iii. 13 ; Plut. Coriol. 3 ; Dionys. vi. 13 ; Mart. i. 70. 3 ; FUR fr. 20, cf.
NS 1882, 233). According to tradition, it was vowed in 499 b.c. by the
dictator Postumius, when the Dioscuri appeared on this spot after the
battle of Lake Regillus, and dedicated in 484 by the son of the dictator
who was appointed duumvir for this purpose (Liv. ii. 20. 12, 42. 5 ;
Dionys. loc. cit.). The day of dedication is given in the calendar as
27th January (Fast. Praen. CIL i2. p. 308 ; Fast. Verol. ap. NS 1923, 196 ;
Ov. Fast. i. 705-706), but by Livy (ii. 42. 5) as 15th July. The later may
be merely an error, or the date of the first temple only (see WR 216-217,
and literature there cited).
Its official name was aedes Castoris (Suet. Caes. 10 : ut enim geminis
fratribus aedes in foro constituta tantum Castoris vocaretur ; Cass. Dio
xxxvii. 8 ; and regularly in literature and inscriptions—Cic. pro Sest. 85 ;
in Verr. i. 131, 132, 133, 134; iii. 41 ; Liv. cit. and viii. II. 16; Fest.
246, 286 j1 Gell. xi. 3. 2 ; Mon. Anc. iv. 13 ; Plaut. Cure. 481 ; CIL vi.
363, 9U7, 9393, 9872, 10024—aedes Castorus (CIL i2. 582. 17) or Kastorus
(ib. 586. 1 ; cf. EE iii. 70) appear merely as variants of this), but we also
find aedes Castorum (Plin. NH x. 121 ; xxxiv. 23 ; Hist. Aug. Max. 16. 1 ;
Valer. 1.4; Not. Reg. VIII; Chron. 146), and Castoris et Pollucis2 (Fast.
1 = Lindsay 290, 362 : 257 (Paul, exc.) has ‘pro significat in, ut pro rostris, pro aede,
pro tribunali ’. Of the original text of Festus (256) nothing remains but the letters stor,
which may represent Ca^stor^is, and refer to the orator’s platform in front of the temple
(Rivista di Filologia, 1925, 105 ; Mem. Am. Acad. v. 79, n. 3).
2 The inversion of the two names which was supposed by Tomassetti, who (BC 1890,
209-219 ; cf. LR 274) wished to attribute to the temple a fragmentary inscription T.C. (i.e.
[Polluci e]t Cfastoril, for which cf. Jord. i. 2. 372 ; Mitt. 1891, 90 ; CIL vi. 30903), is
rendered impossible by the fact that the inscription cannot be fitted on to the building.