Castor, Aedes

De Natura Deorum

M. Tullius Cicero

Tum Lucilius " An tibi" inquit "fabellae videntur? Nonne ab A. Postumio aedem Castori et Polluci in foro dedicatam, nonne senatus consultum de Vatinio vides?"

"Do you really think them old wives' tales?" rejoined Lucilius. "Are you not aware of the temple in the forum dedicated to Castor and Pollux by Aulus Postumius, or of the resolution of the senate concerning Vatinius?"

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Tullius Cicero: Volume XIX. On the Nature of the Gods. Academics, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 268, translated by H. Rackham, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1933, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Texts

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.42.5
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.20.12
T. Livius (Livy)

Antiquitates Romanae, l6.13.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Castor Aedes
Richardson, L. jr

Chronica, 146
Chronographus anni 354

De Re Publica, 46
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

De Vita Caesarum, 20
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

De Vita Caesarum, 22.2
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

De Vita Caesarum, 10.1
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

Epigrammata, 1.70.3
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

Fasti, 1.707-8
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Historiae Romanae, 55.27.4
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 59.28.5
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 37.8.2
Cassius Dio

In Verrem (actio secunda), 2.1.129-54
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

In Verrem (actio secunda), 2.1.154
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Marcius Coriolanus, 3.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Naturalis Historia, 10.121
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Philippicae, 3.27
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

Pompeius, 2.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Saturae, 14.260-62
D. Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal)

Sulla, 33.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

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In Situ Core
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