Regia
Vesta, Aedes

Annales

Cornelius Tacitus

Domuum et insularum et templorum, quae amissa sunt, numerum inire haud promptum fuerit: sed vetustissima religione, quod Servius Tullius Lunae, et magna ara fanumque, quae praesenti Herculi Arcas Evander sacraverat, aedesque Statoris Iovis vota Romulo Numaeque regia et delubrum Vestae cum Penatibus populi Romani exusta.

It would not be easy to attempt an estimate of the private dwellings, tenement-blocks, and temples, which were lost; but the flames consumed, in their old-world sanctity, the temple dedicated to Luna by Servius Tullius, the great altar and chapel of the Arcadian Evander to the Present Hercules, the shrine of Jupiter Stator vowed by Romulus, the Palace of Numa, and the holy place of Vesta with the Penates of the Roman people.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Cornelius Tacitus: Volume V: Annals 13-16., Loeb Classical Library Vol. 322, translated by John Jackson, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1937, 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, 5.42.1-2
T. Livius (Livy)

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

Ab excessu divid Marci, 1.14.4
Heriodianus

Antiquitates Romanae, 6.13.2
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.1
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.4
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.3-6
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Camillus, 21.1
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Camillus, 22.6
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium, 1.21
C. Iulius Solinus

De Lingua Latina, 6.12
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

De Lingua Latina, 6.21
M. Terentius Varro (Varro)

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

De Verborum Significatu, 347L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

De Verborum Significatu, 190L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

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

De Verborum Significatu, 439L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

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

De Verborum Significatu, 292L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

De Verborum Significatu, 202L
Sextus Pompeius Festus (Festus)

De Vita Caesarum, 46
C. Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)

Epigrammata, 1.70.3
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

Epistulae, 4.11.6
C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 1.4.5
Valerius Maximus

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

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

Fasti, 6.263-64
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

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

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

Historiae, 1.43
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Historiae Romanae, 72.24
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 54.24.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 1.6.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 54.27.3
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 44.17.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 48.42.1-6
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 42.31.3
Cassius Dio

Historiae adversum Paganos, 4.11.9
Paulus Orosius

In Vergilium Commentarius, 8.363
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

In Vergilium Commentarius, 3.12
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

In Vergilium Commentarius, 7.153
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

In Vergilium Commentarius, 7.603
Maurus (Marius) Servius Honoratus

Liber de Prodigiis, 19
Iulius Obsequens

Liber de Prodigiis, 50
Iulius Obsequens

Liber de Prodigiis, 47
Iulius Obsequens

Liber de Prodigiis, 44a
Iulius Obsequens

Liber de Prodigiis, 44
Iulius Obsequens

Liber de Prodigiis, 6
Iulius Obsequens

Naturalis Historia, 34.48
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)

Noctes Atticae, 2.28.6
A. Gellius (Aulus Gellius)

Noctes Atticae, 4.6.1-2
A. Gellius (Aulus Gellius)

Numa, 11.1
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Numa, 14.1
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Quaestiones Romanae et Graecae, 97
Plutarchus (Plutarch)

Regia
Richardson, L. jr

Saturnalia, 1.16.30
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Saturnalia, 1.15.19
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius

Tristia, 3.1.29
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Tristia, 3.1.30
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Vesta Aedes
Richardson, L. jr

Images

Detail of Base Decorations
Detail of Coffering Elements
Detail of External Entablature
Detail of Internal Entablature
Extant Monumental Remains (Heavily Reconstructed)
In Situ Remains
Roofing Solution