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PUDICITIA PLEBEIA—PUTEAL LIBONIS
made Pudicitia patricia a contrast to Pudicitia plebeia (WR 333-334 ;
Wissowa, Ges. Abh. 254-260 ; Rosch. iii. 3273-3275). If the shrine did
exist, it was a locus sacratus, not an aedes, and not to be identified with
any existing remains (DAP 2. vi. 241, 269).
Pudicitia Plebeia, sacellum (ara) : a shrine and altar which a cer-
tain Virginia, of patrician birth, who had married a plebeian consul,
L. Volumnius, is said to have dedicated in 296 b.c. in a part of her house
in the vicus Longus on the Quirinal, after she had been excluded from the
worship of Pudicitia Patricia (q.v.) in the forum Boarium (Liv. x.
23. 6-IO; Fest. 236, 237). This cult, becoming polluted, postremo
in oblivionem venit (Liv. loc. cit.), but that the altar continued to stand
seems to be indicated by a passage in Juvenal (vi. 308 : Pudicitiae
veterem cum praeterit aram), where the context can hardly permit a
reference to the forum Boarium (HJ 417-418 ; Rosch. iii. 3275).
Pulvinar ad Circum Maximum : see Circus Maximus.
Pulvinar Solis : apparently a sort of an annex to a temple or shrine
of the Sun, or possibly the shrine itself, situated near the temple of
Quirinus on the Quirinal. It contained an inscription relating to the
evening star, Vesperugo (Quint, i. 7. 12), an evidence of Greek influence
that puts the erection of the shrine not earlier than the third century b.c.
The day of dedication was 9th August (Hemerol. Capran. Amit., CIL i2.
p. 324), and the exact site is unknown. C. F. Hermann’s emendation
of Varro, LL v. 52, by which Solis pulvinar is read in the list of Argei
(q.v.), is very doubtful (HJ 406, WR 316 ; Rosch. iv. 1140).
Puteal Libonis or Scribonianum : * a stone kerb, like that of a well, built
around a spot in the forum, that had been struck by lightning, by a
certain Scribonius Libo, to whom the senate had entrusted the business
of looking up such spots and enclosing them in this way (Fest. 333).
It was a resort of moneylenders (Pers. 4. 49, and Schol. ; Cic. pro Sest.
18 ; Ov. Rem. 561), and near the tribunal of the praetor (Hor. Ep. i. 19. 8,
and Porphyr. ; Sat. ii. 6. 35), the arch of Fabius (Pers. Schol. loc. cit.)
and the porticus Iulia (supra, 73). It is shown on coins (Babeion, Mon-
naies, Aemilia II ; Scribonia 8),1 and perhaps the round base from Veii
in the Lateran Museum is an imitation of it (Benndorf und Schoene, Die
antike Bildwerke d. Lateran. Museums, No. 440 ; HF1210; CIL xi. 3799).
Six blocks of travertine lying near the arch of Augustus, which seem to
belong to a circular kerb, have been identified with this puteal, but
without any good reason (Jord. i. 2. 210, 403-404; Gilb. iii. 1591 ^C
160; Thed. 147-148 ; DR 72 ; RE Suppl. iv. 511 ; BC 1914, 104). It
has also been suggested with very considerable probability that it
is the early well found in the basilica Aemilia, or porticus Gai et Luci
(AJA 1913, 24, 27 ; 1928, 165-177 ; HFP 34).
1 Babeion dates them about 54 B.c., while Grueber (BM. Rep. i. 419, 3377'33θ5) puts
them about 71 b.c., following De Salis. For a restoration of the latter by Trajan, see
Babeion, ii. p. 584, No. 47,
PUDICITIA PLEBEIA—PUTEAL LIBONIS
made Pudicitia patricia a contrast to Pudicitia plebeia (WR 333-334 ;
Wissowa, Ges. Abh. 254-260 ; Rosch. iii. 3273-3275). If the shrine did
exist, it was a locus sacratus, not an aedes, and not to be identified with
any existing remains (DAP 2. vi. 241, 269).
Pudicitia Plebeia, sacellum (ara) : a shrine and altar which a cer-
tain Virginia, of patrician birth, who had married a plebeian consul,
L. Volumnius, is said to have dedicated in 296 b.c. in a part of her house
in the vicus Longus on the Quirinal, after she had been excluded from the
worship of Pudicitia Patricia (q.v.) in the forum Boarium (Liv. x.
23. 6-IO; Fest. 236, 237). This cult, becoming polluted, postremo
in oblivionem venit (Liv. loc. cit.), but that the altar continued to stand
seems to be indicated by a passage in Juvenal (vi. 308 : Pudicitiae
veterem cum praeterit aram), where the context can hardly permit a
reference to the forum Boarium (HJ 417-418 ; Rosch. iii. 3275).
Pulvinar ad Circum Maximum : see Circus Maximus.
Pulvinar Solis : apparently a sort of an annex to a temple or shrine
of the Sun, or possibly the shrine itself, situated near the temple of
Quirinus on the Quirinal. It contained an inscription relating to the
evening star, Vesperugo (Quint, i. 7. 12), an evidence of Greek influence
that puts the erection of the shrine not earlier than the third century b.c.
The day of dedication was 9th August (Hemerol. Capran. Amit., CIL i2.
p. 324), and the exact site is unknown. C. F. Hermann’s emendation
of Varro, LL v. 52, by which Solis pulvinar is read in the list of Argei
(q.v.), is very doubtful (HJ 406, WR 316 ; Rosch. iv. 1140).
Puteal Libonis or Scribonianum : * a stone kerb, like that of a well, built
around a spot in the forum, that had been struck by lightning, by a
certain Scribonius Libo, to whom the senate had entrusted the business
of looking up such spots and enclosing them in this way (Fest. 333).
It was a resort of moneylenders (Pers. 4. 49, and Schol. ; Cic. pro Sest.
18 ; Ov. Rem. 561), and near the tribunal of the praetor (Hor. Ep. i. 19. 8,
and Porphyr. ; Sat. ii. 6. 35), the arch of Fabius (Pers. Schol. loc. cit.)
and the porticus Iulia (supra, 73). It is shown on coins (Babeion, Mon-
naies, Aemilia II ; Scribonia 8),1 and perhaps the round base from Veii
in the Lateran Museum is an imitation of it (Benndorf und Schoene, Die
antike Bildwerke d. Lateran. Museums, No. 440 ; HF1210; CIL xi. 3799).
Six blocks of travertine lying near the arch of Augustus, which seem to
belong to a circular kerb, have been identified with this puteal, but
without any good reason (Jord. i. 2. 210, 403-404; Gilb. iii. 1591 ^C
160; Thed. 147-148 ; DR 72 ; RE Suppl. iv. 511 ; BC 1914, 104). It
has also been suggested with very considerable probability that it
is the early well found in the basilica Aemilia, or porticus Gai et Luci
(AJA 1913, 24, 27 ; 1928, 165-177 ; HFP 34).
1 Babeion dates them about 54 B.c., while Grueber (BM. Rep. i. 419, 3377'33θ5) puts
them about 71 b.c., following De Salis. For a restoration of the latter by Trajan, see
Babeion, ii. p. 584, No. 47,