Vesta, Aedes

Facta et Dicta Memorabilia

Valerius Maximus

Insequenti nocte aedis Vestae arsit. Quo incendio Metellus inter ipsos ignis raptum Palladium incolume servavit.

The following night the temple of Vesta caught fire. In the conflagration Metellus seized the Palladium in the midst of the flames and saved it intact.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Valerius Maximus: Volume I. Books 1-5, Loeb Classical Library Vol. 492, translated by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 2000, 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

Annales, 15.41
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Antiquitates Romanae, 6.13.2
Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Antiquitates Romanae, 2.66.4
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)

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

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

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

Epigrammata, 1.70.3
M. Valerius Martialis (Martial)

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, 6.261-66
P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Historiae, 1.43
Cornelius Tacitus (Tacitus)

Historiae Romanae, 54.24.2
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 72.24
Cassius Dio

Historiae Romanae, 42.31.3
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

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

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

Noctes Atticae, 14.7.7
A. Gellius (Aulus Gellius)

Numa, 11.1
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 External Entablature
Detail of Internal Entablature
Extant Monumental Remains (Heavily Reconstructed)