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SEP. ROMULI—SEP. SCIPIONUM
The original idea, that the destruction of these monuments dates
from the fire of the Gauls, is therefore untenable ; and it is doubtful
whether the black marble pavement was laid by Sulla (so Van Deman
in JRS 1922, 24), by Caesar1 (in which case it is doubtful whether niger
lapis would be a correct term for it, and the absence of any mention
in the literature of the empire of so striking a monument is as strange
as the fact that it does not correspond at all, in extent or orientation,
with the monuments beneath), or by Maxentius, who is known to have
revived the cult of Romulus, and indeed set up close by a base with the
inscription ‘ Marti invicto patri et aeternae urbis suae conditoribus.’ The
rough edging of white marble blocks (and, perhaps, the diminution of the
size of the black marble pavement) would date from an even later period.
See NS 1899, 151-169 ; 1900,143-146; CR 1899, 232-233 ; 1900,236;
1901, 85-87; 1904, 140; 1905, 77; Mitt. 1902, 22-31; 1905, 29-46;
HC 103-109; Studniczka, OJ 1903, 129-155 ; 1904, 239, 244; Petersen,
Comitium, Rostra, Grab des Romulus (Rome 1904) ; Pinza, Comizio
Romano nell’ Eta repubblicana, Rome 1905 ; Richter, BRT iv. 5-13 ;
Pl. 241-250; RE i. A. 1099-1102; Suppl. iv. 490, 491 ; TRS 1922, 7,
23-25; TF 61-66; DR 215-229; ZA72; HFP 2-5.
Sep. Romuli (2) : see Meta Romuli.
Sep. Rusticeliorum : the tomb of the Rusticelii, a monument of tufa and
peperino, 30 feet square, dating from the end of the republic. It was
completely covered by the Testaceus (q.v.) Mons, but was found in 1687
during some excavations in the side of the hill (CIL vi. 11534-11535 ;
Ann. d. Inst. 1878, 177-180).
Sep. Scipionis : the name sometimes applied at the beginning of the
Renaissance (cf. Bufalini’s plan; DAP 2. viii. 386) to the pyramidal
monument between the mausoleum of Hadrian and the Vatican, which
was more frequently called Meta Romuli (q.v.). The ascription to
Scipio was due to a scholion (Acron, in Hor. Epod. 9. 25) : cum adversus
Romanos denuo rebellarent consulto oraculo responsum est : ut sepulcrum
Scipioni fieret quod Carthaginem respiceret. tunc levati cineres eius
sunt de pyramide in Vaticano constituta et humati in portu Carthaginem
respiciente. There is, of course, no ground for this identification.
Sep. Scipionum : * the family tomb of the Cornelii Scipiones near the via
Appia, about 400 metres south-east of the point where the via Latina
branched off to the east, and at the intersection of a cross road that
connected the two great viae. The importance of the family made
this one of the most notable monuments of the kind in Rome (cf. Cic.
Tusc. i. 13 : an tu egressus porta Capena, cum Calatini Scipionum
Serviliorum Metellorum sepulcra vides, miseros illos putes ?). Ennius
was buried in this tomb, and his marble statue erected by Africanus
(Cic. pro Arch. 22 ; Plin. NH vii. 114 ; Suet, de poet. 8 ; Liv. xxxviii. 56).
1 An argument adduced in favour of this view is the fact that it lies precisely in line
with the door of the Curia.
SEP. ROMULI—SEP. SCIPIONUM
The original idea, that the destruction of these monuments dates
from the fire of the Gauls, is therefore untenable ; and it is doubtful
whether the black marble pavement was laid by Sulla (so Van Deman
in JRS 1922, 24), by Caesar1 (in which case it is doubtful whether niger
lapis would be a correct term for it, and the absence of any mention
in the literature of the empire of so striking a monument is as strange
as the fact that it does not correspond at all, in extent or orientation,
with the monuments beneath), or by Maxentius, who is known to have
revived the cult of Romulus, and indeed set up close by a base with the
inscription ‘ Marti invicto patri et aeternae urbis suae conditoribus.’ The
rough edging of white marble blocks (and, perhaps, the diminution of the
size of the black marble pavement) would date from an even later period.
See NS 1899, 151-169 ; 1900,143-146; CR 1899, 232-233 ; 1900,236;
1901, 85-87; 1904, 140; 1905, 77; Mitt. 1902, 22-31; 1905, 29-46;
HC 103-109; Studniczka, OJ 1903, 129-155 ; 1904, 239, 244; Petersen,
Comitium, Rostra, Grab des Romulus (Rome 1904) ; Pinza, Comizio
Romano nell’ Eta repubblicana, Rome 1905 ; Richter, BRT iv. 5-13 ;
Pl. 241-250; RE i. A. 1099-1102; Suppl. iv. 490, 491 ; TRS 1922, 7,
23-25; TF 61-66; DR 215-229; ZA72; HFP 2-5.
Sep. Romuli (2) : see Meta Romuli.
Sep. Rusticeliorum : the tomb of the Rusticelii, a monument of tufa and
peperino, 30 feet square, dating from the end of the republic. It was
completely covered by the Testaceus (q.v.) Mons, but was found in 1687
during some excavations in the side of the hill (CIL vi. 11534-11535 ;
Ann. d. Inst. 1878, 177-180).
Sep. Scipionis : the name sometimes applied at the beginning of the
Renaissance (cf. Bufalini’s plan; DAP 2. viii. 386) to the pyramidal
monument between the mausoleum of Hadrian and the Vatican, which
was more frequently called Meta Romuli (q.v.). The ascription to
Scipio was due to a scholion (Acron, in Hor. Epod. 9. 25) : cum adversus
Romanos denuo rebellarent consulto oraculo responsum est : ut sepulcrum
Scipioni fieret quod Carthaginem respiceret. tunc levati cineres eius
sunt de pyramide in Vaticano constituta et humati in portu Carthaginem
respiciente. There is, of course, no ground for this identification.
Sep. Scipionum : * the family tomb of the Cornelii Scipiones near the via
Appia, about 400 metres south-east of the point where the via Latina
branched off to the east, and at the intersection of a cross road that
connected the two great viae. The importance of the family made
this one of the most notable monuments of the kind in Rome (cf. Cic.
Tusc. i. 13 : an tu egressus porta Capena, cum Calatini Scipionum
Serviliorum Metellorum sepulcra vides, miseros illos putes ?). Ennius
was buried in this tomb, and his marble statue erected by Africanus
(Cic. pro Arch. 22 ; Plin. NH vii. 114 ; Suet, de poet. 8 ; Liv. xxxviii. 56).
1 An argument adduced in favour of this view is the fact that it lies precisely in line
with the door of the Curia.