Niger Lapis

De Verborum Significatu

Sextus Pompeius Festus

Niger lapis in Comitio locum funestum significat....

The black stone in the Comitium signifies a mournful place....

Translation by Jane W. Crawford, © 2001.

Texts

"Scholia codicis rescripti Veronensis in Vergilii Bucolica, Georgia, Aeneidem", 16.13-14
anon.

Antiquitates Romanae, 3.1.2
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 1.87.2
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Niger Lapis
Richardson, L. jr

Images

Close-up of Black Paving Stones
Overhead View