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LARES ALITES—LARES PERMARINI
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temple, while 27th June was that of Augustus’ restoration, a fact that the
poet forgot to make plain ; but the discovery of Fast. Ant. (which is a
calendar earlier than Caesar) makes this hypothesis impossible. It is also
possible that the sacellum Larum of Tacitus may be the aedes in summa
sacra via, and that for some unknown reason he preferred to mark the
pomerium line at this point rather than at the north-west corner. Further
complication is introduced into the problem by two marble bases with
dedicatory inscriptions—CIL vi. 456 : Laribus publicis sacrum imp.
Caesar Augustus ex stipe quam populus ei contulit k. Ianuar. apsenti ;
vi. 30954 : Laribus Aug. sacrum—the first found near the entrance into
the forum from the Farnese gardens about 1555, that is, a little north-west
of the arch of Titus, a point corresponding to summa sacra via ; and the
second found in 1879 opposite SS. Cosma e Damiano. Whether either of
these bases belongs to the aedes, or to some of the monuments erected
throughout the city by Augustus (Suet. Aug. 57), has been much disputed.
If the first does belong to the aedes (Richter 161), it is some evidence for
the site of the temple ; if not (Mommsen, RGDA 82 ; HJ 22), it has no
value either way. The second is of no topographical value.
The relationship of these two or three shrines has given rise to much
discussion, but the most probable, although not altogether satisfactory,
explanation is that the aedes restored by Augustus in summa sacra via
had no connection with the sacellum of Tacitus, which was at the north-
west corner of the Palatine and identical with the ara Larum Praestitum
of Ovid (Jord. i. 2. 420 ; HJ 22 ; Richter, Die alteste Wohnstatte des
rom. Volkes 9, 10 ; Top. 33, 160-161 ; WR 171 ; Wissowa, Ges. Abh.
277 ff. ; Rosch. ii. 1871 ; Gilb. iii. 424; BC 1914, 99; RE xii. 813;
and other literature cited in these references). It has also been conjectured
that the sacellum Larum formed part of the Atrium Vestae (q.v.).
During recent excavations some ruins were found on the south-west
side of the arch of Titus, which may have belonged to this temple, but
reconstructions have been so extensive at this point that any certainty
seems impossible (CR 1905, 75-76, 237, 328 ; 1909, 61 ; Mitt. 1905,
118-119; BPW 1905, 428-429 ; HC250; DR 138-142).
Lares Alites : see Vicus Larum Alitum.
Lares Curiales : see Vicus Larum Curialium.
Lares Permarini, aedes : a temple of the Lares who protect sailors, in
the campus Martius. It was vowed by the praetor, L. Aemilius Regillus,
while engaged in a naval battle with the fleet of Antiochus the Great in
190 b.c., and dedicated by M. Aemilius Lepidus, when censor, on 22nd
December, 179 (Liv. xl. 52. 4 ; Macrob. i. 10. 10 ; Fast. Praen. ad. xi Kai.
Ian., CIL i2. p. 238, 338 ; Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 120 ; HJ 487 ; Gilb. iii.
149 ; Rosch. ii. 1870-1871 ; WR 170). On the doors of the temple was
a dedicatory inscription in Saturnian metre (Liv. loc. cit. ; cf. Baehrens,
Frag. poet. Rom. 54-55). The temple stood ‘ in porticu Minucia ’ (Fast.
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temple, while 27th June was that of Augustus’ restoration, a fact that the
poet forgot to make plain ; but the discovery of Fast. Ant. (which is a
calendar earlier than Caesar) makes this hypothesis impossible. It is also
possible that the sacellum Larum of Tacitus may be the aedes in summa
sacra via, and that for some unknown reason he preferred to mark the
pomerium line at this point rather than at the north-west corner. Further
complication is introduced into the problem by two marble bases with
dedicatory inscriptions—CIL vi. 456 : Laribus publicis sacrum imp.
Caesar Augustus ex stipe quam populus ei contulit k. Ianuar. apsenti ;
vi. 30954 : Laribus Aug. sacrum—the first found near the entrance into
the forum from the Farnese gardens about 1555, that is, a little north-west
of the arch of Titus, a point corresponding to summa sacra via ; and the
second found in 1879 opposite SS. Cosma e Damiano. Whether either of
these bases belongs to the aedes, or to some of the monuments erected
throughout the city by Augustus (Suet. Aug. 57), has been much disputed.
If the first does belong to the aedes (Richter 161), it is some evidence for
the site of the temple ; if not (Mommsen, RGDA 82 ; HJ 22), it has no
value either way. The second is of no topographical value.
The relationship of these two or three shrines has given rise to much
discussion, but the most probable, although not altogether satisfactory,
explanation is that the aedes restored by Augustus in summa sacra via
had no connection with the sacellum of Tacitus, which was at the north-
west corner of the Palatine and identical with the ara Larum Praestitum
of Ovid (Jord. i. 2. 420 ; HJ 22 ; Richter, Die alteste Wohnstatte des
rom. Volkes 9, 10 ; Top. 33, 160-161 ; WR 171 ; Wissowa, Ges. Abh.
277 ff. ; Rosch. ii. 1871 ; Gilb. iii. 424; BC 1914, 99; RE xii. 813;
and other literature cited in these references). It has also been conjectured
that the sacellum Larum formed part of the Atrium Vestae (q.v.).
During recent excavations some ruins were found on the south-west
side of the arch of Titus, which may have belonged to this temple, but
reconstructions have been so extensive at this point that any certainty
seems impossible (CR 1905, 75-76, 237, 328 ; 1909, 61 ; Mitt. 1905,
118-119; BPW 1905, 428-429 ; HC250; DR 138-142).
Lares Alites : see Vicus Larum Alitum.
Lares Curiales : see Vicus Larum Curialium.
Lares Permarini, aedes : a temple of the Lares who protect sailors, in
the campus Martius. It was vowed by the praetor, L. Aemilius Regillus,
while engaged in a naval battle with the fleet of Antiochus the Great in
190 b.c., and dedicated by M. Aemilius Lepidus, when censor, on 22nd
December, 179 (Liv. xl. 52. 4 ; Macrob. i. 10. 10 ; Fast. Praen. ad. xi Kai.
Ian., CIL i2. p. 238, 338 ; Fast. Ant. ap. NS 1921, 120 ; HJ 487 ; Gilb. iii.
149 ; Rosch. ii. 1870-1871 ; WR 170). On the doors of the temple was
a dedicatory inscription in Saturnian metre (Liv. loc. cit. ; cf. Baehrens,
Frag. poet. Rom. 54-55). The temple stood ‘ in porticu Minucia ’ (Fast.