Castor, Aedes

Naturalis Historia

C. Plinius Caecilius

Tiberio principe ex fetu supra Castorum aedem genito pullus in adpositam sutrinam devolavit, etiam religione commendatus officinae domino.

When Tiberius was emperor, a young raven from a brood hatched on the top of the Temple of Castor and Pollux flew down to a cobbler's shop in the vicinity, being also commended to the master of the establishment by religion.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from C. Plinius Caecilius: Natural History (Volume III. Books 8-11), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 353, translated by H. Rackham, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1940, 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 Re Publica, 46
M. Tullius Cicero (Cicero)

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

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

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

Epigrammata, 1.70.3
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

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

Historiae Romanae, 37.8.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 59.28.5
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 55.27.4
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)

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)

Images

Detail of Column Capitals
Giuliani's solution to the approach
In Situ Core
Scott's solution to the approach
Surviving In Situ Columns