Castor, Aedes

De Re Publica

M. Tullius Cicero

...L. ipse Metellus, avus huius, sanctissimos deos illo constituisse in templo videtur in vestro conspectu, iudices, ut salutem a vobis nepotis sui deprecarentur, quod ipsi saepe multis laborantibus atque implorantibus ope sua subvenissent.

...while Lucius Metellus himself, my client's grandfather, may be thought to have set up the most holy gods in yonder temple full in your view, in order that they might win from you the deliverance of his grandson, inasmuch as they have often lent their aid to many suppliants and distressed persons.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Tullius Cicero: Volume XIV. Pro Milone. In Pisonem. Pro Scauro. Pro Fonteio. Pro Rabirio Postumo. Pro Marcello. Pro Ligario. Pro Rege Deiotaro, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 252, translated by N.H. Watts, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1953, 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 Natura Deorum, 3.13
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

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

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

De Vita Caesarum, 22.2
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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Giuliani's solution to the approach
In Situ Core
Scott's solution to the approach
Surviving In Situ Columns