Castor, Aedes
Vesta, Aedes

Epigrammata

M. Valerius Martialis

Quaeris iter, dicam. Vicinum Castora canae

transibis Vestae virgineamque domum;

You ask the way? I' ll tell you. You will pass the temple of Castor, close by ancient Vesta, and the house of the Virgins.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from M. Valerius Martialis: Volume I. Spectacles, Books 1-5, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 94, translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1993, 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, 5.40.7-10
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.20.12
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 5.42.1-2
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita, 2.42.5
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab Urbe Condita Periochae, 19
T. Livius (Livy)

Ab excessu divid Marci, 1.14.4
Heriodianus

Annales, 15.41
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Antiquitates Romanae, 6.13.2
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, l6.13.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.1
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.3-6
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Camillus, 21.1
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Camillus, 22.6
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Castor Aedes
Richardson, L. jr

Chronica, 146
Chronographus anni 354

De Natura Deorum, 3.13
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

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

De Verborum Significatu, 320L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

De Verborum Significatu, 152L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

De Verborum Significatu, 296L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

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)

Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 1.4.5
Valerius Maximus

Fasti, 6.295-98
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Fasti, 6.297-98
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Fasti, 6.257-60
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

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

Fasti, 6.261-66
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Historiae, 1.43
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Historiae Romanae, 42.31.3
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 72.24
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 55.27.4
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 59.28.5
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 54.24.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 37.8.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae adversum Paganos, 4.11.9
Paulus Orosius

In Vergilium Commentarius, 7.153
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

In Vergilium Commentarius, 3.12
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

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

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

Marcius Coriolanus, 3.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

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

Naturalis Historia, 7.141
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Naturalis Historia, 34.13
C. Plinius Caecilius (Pliny the Elder)

Noctes Atticae, 14.7.7
A. Gellius (Aulus Gellius)

Numa, 11.1
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

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)

Tristia, 3.1.29
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Vesta Aedes
Richardson, L. jr

Images

Detail of Base Decorations
Detail of Coffering Elements
Detail of Column Capitals
Detail of External Entablature
Detail of Internal Entablature
Extant Monumental Remains (Heavily Reconstructed)
Giuliani's solution to the approach
In Situ Core
Scott's solution to the approach
Surviving In Situ Columns