In Vergilium Commentarius
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus
AUGUSTA AD MOENIA augurio consecrata. Hinc paulo post <170> illud est 'tectum augustum, ingens' . Et nisi in augusto loco consilium senatus habere non poterat: unde templum Vestae non fuit augurio consecratum, ne illuc conveniret senatus, ubi erant virgines; nam haec fuerat regia Numae Pompilii: ad atrium autem Vestae conveniebat, quod a templo remotum fuerat.
To the majestic walls consecrated by augury. A little after this (170) is "the house, stately and huge." And the senate could not hold a meeting except in a consecrated place: whence the temple of Vesta was not consecrated by augury, so the senate would not meet there, where there were the virgins; for this had been the house of Numa Pompilius. But it used to meet at the atrium of Vesta, which was separate from the temple.
Translation by Jane W. Crawford, © 2001.
TextsAb Urbe Condita, 5.40.7-10 Ab Urbe Condita, 5.42.1-2 Ab Urbe Condita Periochae, 19 Ab excessu divid Marci, 1.14.4 Annales, 15.41 Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.1 Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.3-6 Antiquitates Romanae, 6.13.2 Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.4 Camillus, 22.6 Camillus, 21.1 Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, 1.21 De Lingua Latina, 6.12 De Lingua Latina, 6.21 De Verborum Significatu, 202L De Verborum Significatu, 320L De Verborum Significatu, 190L De Verborum Significatu, 152L De Verborum Significatu, 296L De Verborum Significatu, 439L De Verborum Significatu, 292L De Verborum Significatu, 347L De Vita Caesarum, 46 Epigrammata, 1.70.3 Epistulae, 4.11.6 Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 1.4.5 Fasti, 6.297-98 Fasti, 6.263-64 Fasti, 6.295-98 Fasti, 6.257-60 Fasti, 6.261-66 Historiae, 1.43 Historiae Romanae, 54.27.3 Historiae Romanae, 1.6.2 Historiae Romanae, 48.42.1-6 Historiae Romanae, 72.24 Historiae Romanae, 54.24.2 Historiae Romanae, 42.31.3 Historiae Romanae, 44.17.2 Historiae adversum Paganos, 4.11.9 In Vergilium Commentarius, 8.363 In Vergilium Commentarius, 7.603 In Vergilium Commentarius, 3.12 Liber de Prodigiis, 50 Liber de Prodigiis, 44a Liber de Prodigiis, 19 Liber de Prodigiis, 6 Liber de Prodigiis, 47 Liber de Prodigiis, 44 Naturalis Historia, 34.48 Naturalis Historia, 34.13 Naturalis Historia, 7.141 Noctes Atticae, 14.7.7 Noctes Atticae, 2.28.6 Noctes Atticae, 4.6.1-2 Numa, 11.1 Numa, 14.1 Quaestiones Romanae et Graecae, 97 Regia Saturnalia, 1.16.30 Saturnalia, 1.15.19 Tristia, 3.1.30 Tristia, 3.1.29 Vesta Aedes |
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