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MUTUNUS TUTUNUS
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have been given, but no certainty attaches to any of them (Pr. Reg. 115 ;
HJ 205 ; Gilb. iii. 35ο).1
Mutunus Tutunus (Titin(i)us,2 Mull., Linds.), sacellum : a shrine of this
ancient Italic deity of fertility on the Velia, probably not far from the
Regia, which was destroyed during the principate of Augustus to make
room for the house of Cn. Domitius Calvinus (Fest. 154, 155 Jord,
i. 2. 419 ; Gilb. i. 156). The site of the shrine seems to be indicated on
a sarcophagus now in the Naples museum (Hulsen, Satura Pompeiana
Romana 5-9, in Symbolae litterariae in honorem Iulii de Petra, 1911,
and literature there cited ; see also WR 243 ; Rosch. ii. 204-207).
1 I see no reason against accepting Hiilsen’s explanation, that here the Emperor changed
into his travelling carriage, the adjacent Area Carruces (q.v.) serving the same purpose
for private travellers. Driving was of course forbidden in the city : and mutatio is the
regular name for a post station.
2 Muller also has Titini. The form Tutunus is, however, as Gilbert points out, constantly
used by Christian writers (e.g. Aug. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11).
356
have been given, but no certainty attaches to any of them (Pr. Reg. 115 ;
HJ 205 ; Gilb. iii. 35ο).1
Mutunus Tutunus (Titin(i)us,2 Mull., Linds.), sacellum : a shrine of this
ancient Italic deity of fertility on the Velia, probably not far from the
Regia, which was destroyed during the principate of Augustus to make
room for the house of Cn. Domitius Calvinus (Fest. 154, 155 Jord,
i. 2. 419 ; Gilb. i. 156). The site of the shrine seems to be indicated on
a sarcophagus now in the Naples museum (Hulsen, Satura Pompeiana
Romana 5-9, in Symbolae litterariae in honorem Iulii de Petra, 1911,
and literature there cited ; see also WR 243 ; Rosch. ii. 204-207).
1 I see no reason against accepting Hiilsen’s explanation, that here the Emperor changed
into his travelling carriage, the adjacent Area Carruces (q.v.) serving the same purpose
for private travellers. Driving was of course forbidden in the city : and mutatio is the
regular name for a post station.
2 Muller also has Titini. The form Tutunus is, however, as Gilbert points out, constantly
used by Christian writers (e.g. Aug. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11).