Castor, Aedes

Pompeius

Plutarchus

And yet Flora is said to have flowered into such beauty, and to have been so famous for it, that when Caecilius Metellus was decorating the temple of Castor and Pollux with paintings and statues, he gave her portrait also a place among his dedications.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Plutarchus: Parallel Lives (Volume V. Agesilaus and Pompey. Pelopidas and Marcellus), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 87, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1917, 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, 10.1
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

De Vita Caesarum, 22.2
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, 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)

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

Sulla, 33.4
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

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