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LACUS ESC(UILINUS ?)—LACUS IUTURNAE 311
and the coins were probably offerings to the powers of the underworld
(WR 235). Pliny (NH xv. 78) states that an altar that stood near the
lacus was removed at the time when Julius Caesar celebrated his last
games in the forum, but whether this altar was afterwards restored and
was one of the siccae arae of Ovid is unknown.
The existing remains of the lacus consist of two successive layers of
slabs of grey cappellaccio and brown Monte Verde tufa, both attributed
to the same (the Sullan) period by Van Deman and Frank, forming an
irregularly trapezoidal field about 10 metres long and nearly 9 in greatest
width, on which is a third layer of blocks of travertine surrounded with
a curb. Only part of this layer has been preserved. On its curb are
marks that indicate the existence of a screen or balustrade, on which the
relief mentioned above may have stood. On the western part of the lacus
are traces of rectangular bases which suggest the arae siccae of Ovid, and
near the eastern corner is the plinth of what was evidently a puteal,
or perhaps a round altar of cappellaccio, standing on a twelve-sided
base. The structure in its present shape is clearly a restoration of the
earlier lacus, carried out at the time of the Caesarian changes in the
forum. For description and discussion of the ruins and lacus in general,
see CR 1904, 329-330 ; 1905, 74 ; BC 1904, 181-187 ; Mitt. 1905, 68-71 ;
Atti 580-582; HC 144-148; Hiilsen, Forum, Nachtrag 15-18; Jord,
i. 2. 399; RE iv. 1864, 1892; xii. 378; Suppl. iv. 503-4; NA 1909,
369-375 ; Thed. 74, 268 ; DR 243-249; JRS 1922, 8, 20, 21 ; TF 76.
Lacus Esc(uilinus ?) : found only on one lead plate (Rostowzew 499).
Lacus Fabricius : see Compitum Fabricium.
Lacus Fagutalis : see Fagutal.
Lacus Fundani : a spring on the western slope of the Quirinal, near the
Cati fons (CIL vi. 9854 ; Tac. Hist. iii. 69 ; Placidus p. 29).1 It gave its
name to the vicus laci Fund(ani) (CIL i2. i. 721 =vi. 1297; RhM 1894,
401-403), a street that probably corresponded in general with the Via del
Quirinale from the Piazza del Quirinale southwards.
Lacus Gallines : mentioned with no indication of location on only one
inscription of unknown provenance (CIL vi. 33835).
Lacus Ganymedis : a spring or fountain in the southern part of Region VII
(Not. Cur.), otherwise unknown. Cf. LS iii. 202.
Lacus Iuturnae : the spring of Juturna in the south corner of the forum,
at the foot of the Palatine, where Castor and Pollux were seen to water
their horses after the battle of Lake Regillus in 496 b.c. (Ov. Fasti i. 706 ;
Dionys. vi. 13 ; LA 225, 226 ; Neue Jahrb. 1902, 370-388). Because of
this appearance the temple of Castor and Pollux (q.v.) was built on the
1 Deuerling reads ‘ Catialem collem, ubi nunc lacus funditur,’ following the MSS.: Mai
conjectures * Fundani,’ and is followed by Hiilsen. In CGL v. 53 the text is given thus:
‘ Catialem collem, ubi nunc lacus funditus est dictus a cuntico cuius locum ’ (sic).
and the coins were probably offerings to the powers of the underworld
(WR 235). Pliny (NH xv. 78) states that an altar that stood near the
lacus was removed at the time when Julius Caesar celebrated his last
games in the forum, but whether this altar was afterwards restored and
was one of the siccae arae of Ovid is unknown.
The existing remains of the lacus consist of two successive layers of
slabs of grey cappellaccio and brown Monte Verde tufa, both attributed
to the same (the Sullan) period by Van Deman and Frank, forming an
irregularly trapezoidal field about 10 metres long and nearly 9 in greatest
width, on which is a third layer of blocks of travertine surrounded with
a curb. Only part of this layer has been preserved. On its curb are
marks that indicate the existence of a screen or balustrade, on which the
relief mentioned above may have stood. On the western part of the lacus
are traces of rectangular bases which suggest the arae siccae of Ovid, and
near the eastern corner is the plinth of what was evidently a puteal,
or perhaps a round altar of cappellaccio, standing on a twelve-sided
base. The structure in its present shape is clearly a restoration of the
earlier lacus, carried out at the time of the Caesarian changes in the
forum. For description and discussion of the ruins and lacus in general,
see CR 1904, 329-330 ; 1905, 74 ; BC 1904, 181-187 ; Mitt. 1905, 68-71 ;
Atti 580-582; HC 144-148; Hiilsen, Forum, Nachtrag 15-18; Jord,
i. 2. 399; RE iv. 1864, 1892; xii. 378; Suppl. iv. 503-4; NA 1909,
369-375 ; Thed. 74, 268 ; DR 243-249; JRS 1922, 8, 20, 21 ; TF 76.
Lacus Esc(uilinus ?) : found only on one lead plate (Rostowzew 499).
Lacus Fabricius : see Compitum Fabricium.
Lacus Fagutalis : see Fagutal.
Lacus Fundani : a spring on the western slope of the Quirinal, near the
Cati fons (CIL vi. 9854 ; Tac. Hist. iii. 69 ; Placidus p. 29).1 It gave its
name to the vicus laci Fund(ani) (CIL i2. i. 721 =vi. 1297; RhM 1894,
401-403), a street that probably corresponded in general with the Via del
Quirinale from the Piazza del Quirinale southwards.
Lacus Gallines : mentioned with no indication of location on only one
inscription of unknown provenance (CIL vi. 33835).
Lacus Ganymedis : a spring or fountain in the southern part of Region VII
(Not. Cur.), otherwise unknown. Cf. LS iii. 202.
Lacus Iuturnae : the spring of Juturna in the south corner of the forum,
at the foot of the Palatine, where Castor and Pollux were seen to water
their horses after the battle of Lake Regillus in 496 b.c. (Ov. Fasti i. 706 ;
Dionys. vi. 13 ; LA 225, 226 ; Neue Jahrb. 1902, 370-388). Because of
this appearance the temple of Castor and Pollux (q.v.) was built on the
1 Deuerling reads ‘ Catialem collem, ubi nunc lacus funditur,’ following the MSS.: Mai
conjectures * Fundani,’ and is followed by Hiilsen. In CGL v. 53 the text is given thus:
‘ Catialem collem, ubi nunc lacus funditus est dictus a cuntico cuius locum ’ (sic).