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PONS HADRIAN?—PONS SUBLICIUS
401
Pons Hadriani : see Pons Aelius.
Pons Ianiculensis : see Pons Aurelius.
Pons Lapideus : see Pons Aemilius.
Pons Lepidi : see Pons Aemilius.
Pons Maximus : see Pons Aemilius.
Pons Naumachiarius : see Naumachia Augusti.
Pons Neronianus : a bridge mentioned in the Mirabilia (il), and with
further detail in its later editions—pons Neronianus ad Sassiam (Graphia
10), pons Neronis id est pons ruptus ad s. Spiritum in Sassia (Anon. Magi.
158, Urlichs). It was therefore in a ruined condition in the fifteenth
century, and probably in the fourth, as it is not mentioned in Not. Some
remains of its piers still exist at the bottom of the river (NS 1909, 13 ;
BC 1909, 124-125), and may be seen when the water is very low.1 It
crossed the river immediately below the new Ponte Vittorio Emanuele
but at a slightly different angle, and connected the campus Martius
with the Vatican meadows, the horti Agrippinae and the circus of Nero
(cf. Arcus Arcadii Honorii et Theodosii, and see LF 14 ; KH ii.).
It was probably built by Nero to facilitate communication between this
district and the city, but whether the name is ancient or only mediaeval,
is uncertain. The Via Triumppialis (i) ran north from it; and in the
sixteenth century it was called pons Triumphalis ; and Pope Julius II
intended to restore it and connect the Via Giulia with it (Albertini de
Mirabilibus u. R. (1510), c iiiv-, & iii v-; (1515), nv‘, 95v‘)·
Pons Probi : a bridge mentioned only in the Notitia (app.) and Pol. Silvius
(545). It was probably a new construction of the Emperor Probus
(276-282) rather than a rebuilding of an older bridge, and situated below
the other bridges as it stands last in the list.
It is now generally identified with a still later bridge, which crossed
the Tiber a little south of the north corner of the Aventine, and was called
in the Middle Ages pons marmoreus Theodosii (Mirab. Il) and pons
Theodosii in ripa r(o)mea (Graphia 10). From the letters and reports of
Symmachus (Ep. iv. 70 ; v. 76; Relat. 25, 26) it appears that work was
begun on this bridge before 384 but not completed in 387, and while the
structure is called novus, it is usually believed to have been a rebuilding
of the pons Probi. This bridge was partially destroyed in the eleventh
century and almost entirely in 1484. The last traces of its piers were
removed from the bed of the river in 1878 (Jord. i. I. 421-422 ; Gilb.
iii. 262 ; Mitt. 1893, 320; BC 1877, 167; 1892, 261,262; LR 16, 17;
DuP 86).
Pons Sublicius : the oldest and most famous of the bridges across the
Tiber, built, according to tradition, by Ancus Martius (Liv. i. 33 ; Plut.
1 DuP 52, 53, and fig. 25.
2 c
A.D.R.
401
Pons Hadriani : see Pons Aelius.
Pons Ianiculensis : see Pons Aurelius.
Pons Lapideus : see Pons Aemilius.
Pons Lepidi : see Pons Aemilius.
Pons Maximus : see Pons Aemilius.
Pons Naumachiarius : see Naumachia Augusti.
Pons Neronianus : a bridge mentioned in the Mirabilia (il), and with
further detail in its later editions—pons Neronianus ad Sassiam (Graphia
10), pons Neronis id est pons ruptus ad s. Spiritum in Sassia (Anon. Magi.
158, Urlichs). It was therefore in a ruined condition in the fifteenth
century, and probably in the fourth, as it is not mentioned in Not. Some
remains of its piers still exist at the bottom of the river (NS 1909, 13 ;
BC 1909, 124-125), and may be seen when the water is very low.1 It
crossed the river immediately below the new Ponte Vittorio Emanuele
but at a slightly different angle, and connected the campus Martius
with the Vatican meadows, the horti Agrippinae and the circus of Nero
(cf. Arcus Arcadii Honorii et Theodosii, and see LF 14 ; KH ii.).
It was probably built by Nero to facilitate communication between this
district and the city, but whether the name is ancient or only mediaeval,
is uncertain. The Via Triumppialis (i) ran north from it; and in the
sixteenth century it was called pons Triumphalis ; and Pope Julius II
intended to restore it and connect the Via Giulia with it (Albertini de
Mirabilibus u. R. (1510), c iiiv-, & iii v-; (1515), nv‘, 95v‘)·
Pons Probi : a bridge mentioned only in the Notitia (app.) and Pol. Silvius
(545). It was probably a new construction of the Emperor Probus
(276-282) rather than a rebuilding of an older bridge, and situated below
the other bridges as it stands last in the list.
It is now generally identified with a still later bridge, which crossed
the Tiber a little south of the north corner of the Aventine, and was called
in the Middle Ages pons marmoreus Theodosii (Mirab. Il) and pons
Theodosii in ripa r(o)mea (Graphia 10). From the letters and reports of
Symmachus (Ep. iv. 70 ; v. 76; Relat. 25, 26) it appears that work was
begun on this bridge before 384 but not completed in 387, and while the
structure is called novus, it is usually believed to have been a rebuilding
of the pons Probi. This bridge was partially destroyed in the eleventh
century and almost entirely in 1484. The last traces of its piers were
removed from the bed of the river in 1878 (Jord. i. I. 421-422 ; Gilb.
iii. 262 ; Mitt. 1893, 320; BC 1877, 167; 1892, 261,262; LR 16, 17;
DuP 86).
Pons Sublicius : the oldest and most famous of the bridges across the
Tiber, built, according to tradition, by Ancus Martius (Liv. i. 33 ; Plut.
1 DuP 52, 53, and fig. 25.
2 c
A.D.R.